On 10/15/2010 1:10 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 10/15/2010 12:44 PM, Paras pradhan wrote:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Peter Kjellstrom cap@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.
Try this script (untested):
#!/bin/bash ETH=`ifconfig | grep -i $1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1` echo "Blinking $ETH - $1" ethtool -p $ETH 30
Just call it with the mac address as an argument. It will find the interface with ifconfig and then call ethtool to blink the lights for 30 seconds.
(Assuming your NIC supports ethtool. The system I tried to test this on was not supported...)
oops...
Make that "ifconfig -a" in the script to find inactive interfaces.