Subject: Re: Realtek NIC uses over 1 Watt with no traffic

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:37:58 +0100

> >This sounds like Energy Efficient Ethernet, EEE, is not enabled.
> 
> No, idea if the router from my provider supports that.

It is pretty standard these days. But it requires both local and
remove MAC and PHY support it.

> >What does ethtool --show-eee ethX say?
> 
>     $ sudo ethtool --show-eee enp3s0f1
>     Cannot get EEE settings: Operation not supported

It would be nice to support this. Maybe Heiner can put it onto his
TODO list.

     Andrew