Since Xenial now uses "predictable" interface naming schemes, mii-tool's
limit will affect most systems.

===== first example =====
# mii-tool
no MII interfaces found
# mii-tool $(cd /sys/class/net/; ls -d en*)
enp4s0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
enp6s0: negotiated 1000baseT-FD flow-control, link ok
enp8s0: negotiated 1000baseT-FD flow-control, link ok
enp9s0: no link


===== second example =====
# mii-tool
no MII interfaces found
# mii-tool $(cd /sys/class/net/; ls -d en*)
eno1: negotiated 1000baseT-FD flow-control, link ok
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eno2' failed: Resource temporarily unavailable


** Tags added: xenial

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/962616

Title:
  mii-tool assumes NIC names of the form eth* when given no interface(s)
  as argument

Status in net-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On a system with biosdevname enabled, which names NICs in the forms
  em* and p*p*, mii-tool will return the message "no MII interfaces
  found" if mii-tool is called without specifying an interface. The
  correct behavior would be to iterate through em* and p*p*. (More
  information on biosdevname can be found at
  
http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/consistent_network_device_naming_in_linux.pdf.)

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