Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies commonly used in communication devices. A scheme known as carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) governed the way the devices access the channel.

• Speed: 10 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s, 1 Gbit/s and 10 Gbit/s (10GBASE-T, or IEEE 802.3an-2006, is a standard released in 2006)

Activities

1. Configure an Ethernet connection in Ubuntu Linux using netplan or nmcli in RHEL depending of your Linux distribution.
2. Configure Ethernet bonding connections (802.3ad / LACP link aggregation)
3. Show interface configuration in Linux including ip addresses: ifconfig -a or ip a
4. Show interface ethernet network capabilities of network interface in Linux, such as speed, with: mii-tool -v YOUR_INTERFACE_NAME, mii-tool -v eth0
5. Read about wikipedia:Jumbo_frames: ip link set dev eth0 mtu 9000

Related terms

• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• InfiniBand
• MTU
• 8P8C connector
• Ethernet card
• Ethernet In-Band Access (IBA)
• EtherNet/IP (IP = Industrial Protocol)
• MAC

See also

• ifconfig, ethtool or obsolete mii-tool (mii-tool -v eth0) nmcli device show, eth0, Network manager
• ip [link, route], ifconfig netstat ss lsof ping ethtool mii-tool arping nmcli(RHEL) route networkctl, netplan, tc
• TCP/IP, Transport protocol, UDP, SCTP, QUIC, subnet mask, Routing protocols: BGP, routing table, Policy based routing, multicast, TCP Fast Open, RDP, TTL, RTT, MPTCP, Large send offload (LSO): (TSO, GRO, GSO, TCP checksum), ethtool, SCTP, 5-Tuple, Check TCP connectivity, TCP window size, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem, ack, List of TCP ports, localhost, broadcast address
• Ethernet: MII, MDI, bonding, etherchannel, STP, ARP, MAC, STP, Jumbo frames, 802.1X, MTU, Ethernet In-Band Access (IBA), LACP, Multicast, Broadcast, SPI
• Networking: bandwidth, latency, Jitter, Ethernet, UPnP, MPLS, Frame Relay, ATM, TCP/IP, ARP, WiFi, BGP, Networking timeline, Router, Proxy ARP, Services & Networking, Traffic shapper

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/configuring_and_managing_networking/index#configuring-network-bonding-using-nmcli_Configuring-Networking-with-nmcli