Disabling ethernet link on an Intel nic?

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

On 16 Aug 2012, at 10:13, Marius Strobl wrote:

> I'm working on adding support to mii(4) for powering down PHYs when
> the network interface is down, but as you have noticed this non-
> trivial to get right, i.e. so they actually come out of power down
> mode again when bringing up the interface regardless of the media
> options used. We also clearly need a way to disable this behavior
> for the known-broken PHYs.

Please be very careful in case the PHY is carrying a piggy-backed IPMI NIC too.

> This is orthogonal to the 1 and 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet drivers
> so as these don't take advantage of mii(4). Some time ago someone
> posted patches to net@ implementing/activating powering down the
> PHYs when these interfaces are down though.
> 
> Marius

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