Unable to set NIC speed to 100Gbps on RHEL using ethtool
Issue
- Ethtool command failing to set NIC speed to 100Gbps
- NIC speed is set to 50Gbps
- Operation not supported for setting speed to 100Gbps:
# ethtool ens10f1|grep -i speed
Speed: 50000Mb/s
# ethtool -s ens10f1 speed 100000 duplex full autoneg off
netlink error: link settings update failed
netlink error: Operation not supported
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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