Ethernet

This article describes the setup of an Ethernet network device.

Hardware detection
To choose the right driver, first detect the used Ethernet controllers. You can use lspci for this task:

Kernel
You need to activate the following kernel options:

Physical interface settings
List eth0 physical interface settings using :


 * Or using  from  package:

Physical interface features (TCP offloading)
Sometimes NIC's have basic/partial TCP/IP stack implementation, and support offloading of certain networking routines/protocols to the NIC chip.

Example below shows network interface offloading features supported on device eth0:


 * Network management

Advanced Configuration

 * Power management

External resources

 * TCP offload engine