PETHTOOL(8)

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version 0.15 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

✨ PETHTOOL ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because pethtool is here and she's serving Display or change ethernet card settings 💅 it lives in section 8 of the manual (that's the admin-tools girlies) and she's ready to spill all the tea about your network card.

🦋 NAME 🦋

pethtool — Display or change ethernet card settings 🌈

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pethtool [OPTIONS] [<INTERFACE>]

literally that's it. options first, interface optional, we love a flexible entrance 💖

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the vibe: this script mimic ethtool behavior, but — and this is the iconic part — it's written purely in python and it uses the python module ethtool. no cap. same energy as the original tool, different DNA. she's giving "I can do everything your fave does, but in a different language" 👑

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • INTERFACE — the name of the ethernet device on which pethtool should operate. you know, your eth0-core bestie 🫶
  • -h, --help — show help message and exit. when in doubt, ask for help, it's self-care ✨
  • -c|--show-coalesce — show coalesce options 👀
  • -C|--coalesce — set coalesce options. and bestie, there are so many of them, here's the full list, no skipping, I would never:
    • adaptive-rx on|off
    • adaptive-tx on|off
    • rx-usecs N
    • rx-frames N
    • rx-usecs-irq N
    • rx-frames-irq N
    • tx-usecs N
    • tx-frames N
    • tx-usecs-irq N
    • tx-frames-irq N
    • stats-block-usecs N
    • pkt-rate-low N
    • rx-usecs-low N
    • rx-frames-low N
    • tx-usecs-low N
    • tx-frames-low N
    • pkt-rate-high N
    • rx-usecs-high N
    • rx-frames-high N
    • tx-usecs-high N
    • tx-frames-high N
    • sample-interval N
  • -i|--driver — show driver information 🔍 like a lil driver backstory, obsessed
  • -k|--show-offload — get protocol offload information 🌸
  • -K|--offload — set protocol offload:
[ tso on|off ]

that's the whole menu, short and sweet, periodt 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ethtool(8) — the original main character, go say hi 💜

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

  • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 💫
  • Man page written by Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com> ✨
🎀 and that's the whole page bestie!! no notes, she ate, 10/10

okay bye ily — this was pethtool, man page section PETHTOOL(8), dated 07/10/2026 in the footer. mwah 💋 🦋🌸💖

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