Shut down / Physically disable ethernet interface

RouterOS General
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Good day!

Does anybody know if it is possible to physically shut down an ethernet interface on any of the RouterBoards?

Simply doing:
/interface disable ether1

Does not work! It only disables the interface in software, while the physical link still stays up.

This feature would be really useful when failover routing is done behind the RouterBoard based on the link status of a port.

Thank you and Good Day!

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i think it depends a bit on the RB model, i can physically disable ethernet interfaces on a RB500 with RB564. it drops the link status and you can also see a reduction in power consumption. that was with ROS 2.9.48 when i did it last. i do not know about other RB’s.

Jan