Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 15:02 +0000, Yannis Aribaud wrote: > Package: ethtool > Version: 1:4.19-1 > Severity: important > I'm facing a very strange behavior. The command ethtool -m report > the transceiver DOM values correctly, but when the command output is > redirected to an other program, values change to somthing else. [...] > As you can see alsmost all mesuring values (C, V, mA and dBm) change. > The values when output is redirected are unreliable which makes it > impossible to use in a script.
I suspect that ethtool is actually getting garbage data from the driver. > I am using Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster), kernel 4.19.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP > Debian 4.19.118-2 (2020-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux and libc6 2.28-10 And which network driver are you using? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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