NIC speed in Vmware Installation

kdeclerck

I have installed PFsense under Vmware ESX 3.0.2. Everythings is working well.

Can someone tell me at what speed the NIC's under Vmware are running or how to check it ?

GruensFroeschli

status –> interface

kdeclerck

The problem is that I don't get any useful output over there.

This is the info I get, but as you see no info about the duplex speed …

Status up
DHCP up
MAC address 00:50:56:86:29:40
IP address 200.200.201.33
Subnet mask 255.255.0.0
Gateway 200.200.254.254
ISP DNS servers 200.200.1.20
200.200.1.21
Media autoselect
In/out packets 1441/1947 (160 KB/480 KB)
In/out errors 0/0
Collisions 0

LAN interface (le0)
Status up
MAC address 00:50:56:86:7b:32
IP address 200.200.241.246
Subnet mask 255.255.0.0
Media autoselect
In/out packets 2943/12 (498 KB/928 bytes)
In/out errors 0/0
Collisions 0

YoMarK

le0 as driver means AMD vlance driver, and this is not good for performance.
See this guide how to install faster drivers: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7271.0.html
This installs the Vmware native vmxnet driver.

As an alternative, you could edit your VM's .vmx file, and change the ethernet driver to e1000, for example:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

This works with pfSense out of the box, and is much faster.

The speed of NIC's in Vmware is always virtual. Vlance is 10Mbit, but can actually go much faster(limited by CPU).