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… 😥

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    If I understand, this is less a complaint about how UNIX works and more a story about the consequences of careless mistakes.

    This is why we have KVMs I guess. Though not every server has one of those.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I’ve been trying to find a network capable KVM for home use. They’re all pretty expensive or lacking functionality. I don’t actually need one or I’d pull the trigger, but I sure have been tempted.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I don’t buy servers without iDRAC enterprise licenses. It’s too damn useful.