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Gnanasekar Loganathan | 7 Mar 2011 07:09

Regarding the ethernet port led up/down status

Hi All,

When i down the ethernet port from the command prompt, the ethernet
led continue to glow, not off or change the color to amber.

ifconfig wm0 down  -> led status green
ifconfig wm0 up  -> led status green

PHY: intel's 82578.
Kernel: NetBSD 5.1

Is this expected behavior?
Kindly advice...

Thanks,
Gnana

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Gnanasekar Loganathan | 8 Mar 2011 06:49

Re: Regarding the ethernet port led up/down status

Any advice?

Thanks,
Gnana

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Gnanasekar Loganathan
<l.gnanasekar <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> When i down the ethernet port from the command prompt, the ethernet
> led continue to glow, not off or change the color to amber.
>
> ifconfig wm0 down  -> led status green
> ifconfig wm0 up  -> led status green
>
> PHY: intel's 82578.
> Kernel: NetBSD 5.1
>
> Is this expected behavior?
> Kindly advice...
>
> Thanks,
> Gnana
>

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Manuel Bouyer | 8 Mar 2011 21:34

Re: Regarding the ethernet port led up/down status

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 11:19:38AM +0530, Gnanasekar Loganathan wrote:
> Any advice?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Gnana
> 
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Gnanasekar Loganathan
> <l.gnanasekar <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > When i down the ethernet port from the command prompt, the ethernet
> > led continue to glow, not off or change the color to amber.
> >
> > ifconfig wm0 down  -> led status green
> > ifconfig wm0 up  -> led status green
> >
> > PHY: intel's 82578.
> > Kernel: NetBSD 5.1
> >
> > Is this expected behavior?
> > Kindly advice...

As the PHY can be shared with the BMC, it would be a bad idea to turn
it off ...

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