[ipxe-devel] - Close network device (really power down, and bring it back up again)

[Torgeir.Wulfsberg at kongsberg.com]

Okey, thanks for the time to answer :-)

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Torgeir

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Brown [mailto:mcb30 at ipxe.org]
Sent: 11. november 2015 17:40
To: Wulfsberg, Torgeir; ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] - Close network device (really power down, and bring it back up again)

On 11/11/15 10:05, Torgeir.Wulfsberg at kongsberg.com wrote:
> Is'it possible to really power down the network interface in iPXE
> (like linux would do by unloading the kernel module for network
> drivers "tg3 or e1000e")?

No; we have no support for doing that.

For specific drivers, you could patch in something similar.  For example, in the Intel driver, if you were to delete the "If link is already up, do not attempt to reset the PHY" portion of intel_reset(), then performing "ifclose" should reset the chip including a link-level reset.

Michael

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