From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PHY down?
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:01:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312282868.2591.68.camel@deadeye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF6D5A2ABF.61D9AA63-ONC12578E0.00335EE4-C12578E0.0033AE22@transmode.se>
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 11:24 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> I must be missing something obvious but I cannot find how
> to bring eth0's PHY down (link down) from user space.
> Tried various settings with ethtool and ifconfig eth0 down but it didn't help.
If you configure an interface down, and if the interface is not used for
remote management, then some drivers will turn the PHY off. But there
is no general way to control this explicitly.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-02 9:24 PHY down? Joakim Tjernlund
2011-08-02 11:01 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-08-02 12:24 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2011-08-02 12:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-08-05 4:13 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
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