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… 😥

    • LodespawnEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      Until they have to troubleshoot the console server …

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            3 days ago

            i once worked at a place that had something like this and; it sounds silly; but i got a live demonstration that it was the smartest thing ever.

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            3 days ago

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

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Nah, you only need two, each connected to the other. Use one to work on the other.