Hi Remy, Thanks for the response. The error is "No such device", some snippets below. And no I was not using the dpdk ethtool
ge8-----> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) root:~# ls /sys/class/net/ge8/device/driver/module/drivers/ pci:igb root:~# root:~# ethtool ge8 Settings for ge8: Cannot get device settings: No such device Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: No such device Cannot get message level: No such device Cannot get link status: No such device No data available Rgds, Gopa. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com> wrote: > Morning, > > On 13/04/2016 15:48, Gopakumar Choorakkot Edakkunni wrote: > [..] > >> then after a while I >> unbind from igb_uio and bind them back to igb/ixgbe. At this point, one of >> the 4 igb ports (random) stops responding to ethtool, ethtool bails out >> with some error. But otherwise the interface seems to work fine, it has a >> linux interface created and pops up in /sys/class/net etc.. Has anyone >> seen >> this before ? I thought of checking before starting to debug this further >> > > Can you give details of the error? If you were you unbinding from igb_uio > while examples/ethtool was still running it likley caused something to trip > up, as at least DPDK ethtool itself was not made with run-time unbinding in > mind. > > Regards, > > ..Remy >
