Re: Regarding the ethernet port led up/down status

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Mar 2011 21:34:54 +0100

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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
> <[email protected]> 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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