Not able to change Port speed using ethtool on LS-1088ARDB-PB

[ashutoshharry]

Hi @yipingwang 

i am not able to change port speed as its 10G interface and want to change it to 1G for traffic testing.

any clues will be helpful

logs and command below:

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root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: Not reported
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Link detected: yes
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: Not reported
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Link detected: yes
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000
Cannot advertise speed 1000
root@OpenWrt:~# dmesg -n 8
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: Not reported
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Link detected: yes
root@OpenWrt:~#

[ashutoshharry]

root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: Not reported
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Link detected: yes
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
root@OpenWrt:~#
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: Not reported
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Link detected: yes

[yipingwang · Accepted solution]

This operation is not supported in LSDK or OpenWrt.

[ashutoshharry]

root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: Not reported
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Link detected: yes
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
root@OpenWrt:~#
root@OpenWrt:~# ethtool eth1
Settings for eth1:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: Not reported
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 10000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Link detected: yes

same result 

[yipingwang]

Do you use dpmac.1 or dpmac.2?

dpmac.1 is optical port, it cannot be switched to 1G mode.

dpmac.2 is copper port, you could try the following command.

ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off