rjmoggach Asked: 2011-10-17 05:17:44 +0800 CST2011-10-17 05:17:44 +0800 CST 2011-10-17 05:17:44 +0800 CST What is the command to flash a NIC link light? 772 I remember using a command line tool to flash a NIC's link light to identify it. I can't remember for the life of me what it was. hardware linux networking command-line-interface nic 3 Answers Voted Best Answer rjmoggach 2011-10-17T05:29:26+08:002011-10-17T05:29:26+08:00 Yeah it was ethtool I was looking for but specifically this will flash the link light for two minutes: ethtool -p eth0 120 user9517 2011-10-17T05:26:02+08:002011-10-17T05:26:02+08:00 Is ethtool what you're looking for ethtool --identify eth0 Roger Murtaugh 2017-06-19T01:46:00+08:002017-06-19T01:46:00+08:00 Ethtool also works with vmware ESXi with -p parameter: Example: ethtool -p vmnic0 15 vmnic0 will blink for 15 seconds Here is a video that shows how it works (at 2:50 shows blink): http://www.sysadmit.com/2017/06/vmware-esxi-vmnic-nic-fisica.html
Yeah it was ethtool I was looking for but specifically this will flash the link light for two minutes:
Is ethtool what you're looking for
Ethtool also works with vmware ESXi with -p parameter:
Example:
ethtool -p vmnic0 15vmnic0 will blink for 15 seconds
Here is a video that shows how it works (at 2:50 shows blink):
http://www.sysadmit.com/2017/06/vmware-esxi-vmnic-nic-fisica.html