ethtool software package provides display or change Ethernet device settings, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ethtool
ethtool is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ethtool package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ethtool *
You will get with ethtool package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | ethtool |
| Version | 1:4.6-1 |
| Description | display or change Ethernet device settings |
| Sub Section | Utils |