Unable to set NIC speed to 100Gbps on RHEL using ethtool

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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