Identify A NIC Port¶

If you ever need to, you can have a specific port of a physical NIC on the router blink to visually identify it.

To do that, run the following command:

vrouter> cmd identify-port pci-b131s0f1 duration 300

Where pci-b131s0 is the network-port you want to identify.

The command can be interrupted before the specified duration (in seconds) by hitting ctrl-c.

Note

If you see the following error message:

Cannot identify NIC: Operation not supported

It means that your network adapter does not support LED control.

Tip

To display the list of all network-ports and their description, you may use the following command:

vrouter> show state network-port
network-port pci-b6s0
    pci-bus-addr 0000:06:00.0
    vendor "Intel Corporation"
    model "I350 Gigabit Network Connection"
    ..
network-port pci-b131s0
    pci-bus-addr 0000:83:00.0
    vendor "Intel Corporation"
    model "82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection"
    ..
network-port pci-b131s0f1
    pci-bus-addr 0000:83:00.1
    vendor "Intel Corporation"
    model "82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection"
    ..
network-port pci-b134s0
    pci-bus-addr 0000:86:00.0
    vendor "Mellanox Technologies"
    model "MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4]"
    ..
network-port pci-b134s0f1
    pci-bus-addr 0000:86:00.1
    vendor "Mellanox Technologies"
    model "MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4]"
    ..