Hello,
I'm wondering what are the semantics of calling
ip link set dev eth0 down
I was expecting that to somehow instruct the device's ethernet driver
to shut everything down, have the PHY tell the peer that it's going
away, maybe even put the PHY in some low-power mode, etc.
But it doesn't seem to be doing any of that on my HW.
So what exactly is it supposed to do?
And on top of that, I am seeing random occurrences of
nb8800 26000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down
Sometimes it is printed immediately.
Sometimes it is printed as soon as I run "ip link set dev eth0 up" (?!)
Sometimes it is not printed at all.
I find this erratic behavior very confusing.
Is it the symptom of some deeper bug?
Regards.
