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… 😥
Can also use Pi KVM to add a similar capability to non server grade hardware that doesn’t have it. I did that for a workstation once.
Yup, I use PiKVM, too. Fun fact, PiKVM’s first content commit is a clone of my DIY IPMI repo 😉
Look, it’s’a me: https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm/commit/70eebd5c59da26dc3f6ad56730adbb616055f4e5#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R4
Awesome job!
Yea, it was a really fun project to make back before there were any real options. And I’m glad the PiKVM team could expand upon it.
Somewhere along the way I lost the “based on” credit, likely whenever they fully modernized the stack. I wasn’t really keeping track, but did find it humorous when LTT said the creator complained someone based another project on them. I was like “Hmmmmmmm…” but just laughed because I didn’t make it for it to stagnate like it had been with me.