On 10/15/2010 12:01 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Paras pradhan wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Peter Kjellstromcap@nsc.liu.se wrote:
On Thursday 14 October 2010, Paras pradhan wrote: ...
I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id represents which physical port. Any way to find this?
Have a look at the "-p" option to ethtool
It would be useful (to me) if I can use mac address instead of interface name in -p option.
After some thought, I think what I'd do is plug a cable into them in, one at a time, and use ethtool to find the one, and only one, that says "link detected", and you've got it.
mii-tool is a little handier for this since it will iterate over all the interfaces itself. But, it will incorrectly call a 1Gb link 100baseT.