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No. Connect one to your other computer or switch and test each port for an active link using ethtool.
Exactly. Do not connect the two ports on the same MACHINE together, connect ONE to a different machine. Then you can test for link. The one reported by the software as having a link is the physical one you have connected.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wpeckham
MAC addresses are displayed as ether in the output of
Code:
ip link show
. Figuring out the map from the reported NIC ports to the physical port connections might be interesting, but the easy way is to connect one and detect the link state.
@OP
The following commands will all show MAC addresses under link/ether in the terminal
Code:
ip link show
Code:
ip ip -d a
Code:
ip link show
Code:
ip link
Code:
ip addr
ether stands for ethernet address to IP number database
The naming of your network interface will depend on whether your linux system (kernel) uses eth0, eth1 and wlan0 or enp3s0 and wlp2s0 for naming when it comes to hardware locations.
No. To check for link you run a software command to detect the link states of the ports. To connect or disconnect them to get physical link to detect you are plugging the Ether jumper into the NIC connection on the outside of the case.
In other words, it is plugging in a network cable or wire that has another network device on the other end that makes the physical link you want to detect.
To disconnect you would use (depending on your port name):
If port name is eth0
Code:
sudo ifconfig eth0 down
to reconnect
Code:
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
If port name is enp2s0
Code:
sudo ifconfig enp2s0 down
to reconnect
Code:
sudo ifconfig enp2s0 up
Reboot will return to default settings.
No.
In this case the 'connect' means to physically connect the cable from the card to another machine so the card is activated.
'disconnect' means to physically disconnect that cable.
The suggestion was not based on the software since the OP does not know how to identify each card separately within the machine.
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