sosreport (ethtool -e) causes NIC interruption
Issue
- Beginning in
sos-3.7, the commandethtool -ewas included by default - The command
ethtool -ereads the EEPROM data on a NIC - Reading the EEPROM data can cause a multi-second interruption on the NIC which may result in application outages. Some BMC (iLO, iDRAC) NICs become disabled and might require to remove the power cords from the server to reset the BMC to normal state.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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