Tuesday, August 18, 2009

My God! It's full of stars!

Ever try hooking up a server or firewall with multiple network cards? You stand in back of it wondering which RJ45 port is eth0, which one is eth1...

Here's a little tip: you can make network card lights blink with the ethtool command:


ethtool -p eth0


You can make each card blink for 30 seconds in order with something like:


for net in eth0 eth1 eth2; do ethtool -p $net 30; done

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