So I'm working on a server from home.

I do a cat /sys/class/net/eth0/operstate and it says unknown despite the interface being obviously up, since I'm SSH'ing into the box.

I try to explicitely set the interface up to force the status to say up with ip link set eth0 up. No joy, still unknown.

Hmm... maybe I should bring it down and back up.

So I do ip link set eth0 down and... I drive 15 miles to work to do the corresponding ip link set eth0 up

50 years using Unix and I'm still doing this... 😥

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Until they have to troubleshoot the console server ..

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    then setup a super console server. lol

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's console servers all the way down (up?)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    and you make each one geographically closer than the previous one until there's one right next to you. lol

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