Displaying failed NIC’s in bonds/teams

It’s often difficult to see if you have failed network links, especially if you have virtual switches as “bonds” where a virtual switch has more than one physical NIC patched to the switch for fault tolerance/load-balancing. You can see from the MUI when physical NIC has lost its interface. These screen dumps were taken with the network cables unlinked from the NICs.

  1. Logon to the MUI as ROOT
  2. Click the Options Tab
  3. Select the  Network Connections…

  4. If you click in the same window as the “Physical Adapters” tab you will see the following:

    Note:
    Next to Actual Speed, Duplex it says “Not Connected”

 

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This was first published in December 2005

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