Disabling flow control and eee on my NICs

[Taomyn]

I'm wanting to disable both flow control and eee on all the NICs of my firewall and from what have read I need to use tunables for this. This appears to be the ones I need to set from what I read:

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dev.em.0.fc 0
dev.igb.0.fc 0
dev.igb.1.fc 0
dev.igb.2.fc 0
dev.igb.3.fc 0
dev.igb.0.eee_disabled 1
dev.igb.1.eee_disabled 1
dev.igb.2.eee_disabled 1
dev.igb.3.eee_disabled 1

But when I run "sysctl -a" I do not see "_disabled" only "_control":

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root@bart:~ # sysctl -a | grep eee
hw.bxe.autogreeen: 0
hw.em.eee_setting: 1
dev.em.0.eee_control: 1
dev.igb.2.eee_control: 1
dev.igb.1.eee_control: 1
dev.igb.0.eee_control: 1
Should I change my tunables to "_control" or is "_disabled" still correct?


Also, is there any way to set these live so I can test they don't break the NIC so that a reboot reverts the change if it goes really wrong?