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… 😥

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    Remember what Bruce Lee said:

    I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.