How to realize that "Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3) (rev 01)" network card is running in SR-IOV mode without a card BIOS access

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Issue

  • How to know which mode is the network card running in?
  • The machine can not be rebooted for some reason, that's why the card's BIOS is unavailable.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • driver: be2net
  • version: 4.6.62.0r and later
  • firmware-version: 4.6.247.5 and later
  • ethtool-3.5-1.2.el6_5.x86_64 and later

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