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… 😥

        • 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.