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2ethcabletest(8)              EFSFFCLIRG (Man Page)             ethcabletest(8)
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NAME

7       ethcabletest
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11       Initiates or stops Cable Bit Error Rate stress tests for Network Inter‐
12       face Card (NIC)-to-switch links.
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Syntax

15       ethcabletest [-f  hostfile] [-h  'hosts'] [-n   numprocs]  [start|stop]
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Options

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26                 Specifies  the  file with hosts to include in NIC-to-SW test.
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50       The NIC-SW cable test requires that the FF_MPI_APPS_DIR is set, and  it
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Examples

55       ethcabletest -f good ethcabletest -h 'arwen elrond' start  HOSTS='arwen
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Environment Variables

60       The following environment variables are also used by this command:
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