NIC drops speed to 10Mb
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Bad cable? Check that first.
Steve
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All cables are fine, I've checked that twice.
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Have you tried also forcing the switchside to a given speed while you force the client side ?
Wouldn't be the first time I've seen (excuse my french) those crappy Dellswitches fail autonegotiation ::)
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The switches are D-Link. I tried to manually set the speed, but that doesn't work. Also, one of the switches isn't manageable. Any ideas?
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I really have no other ideas, except from the fact that it is dell switches….. burned so many times on those that I wouldn't want my worst enemy to run on them.
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I think you have a hardware problem and time has come to replace yours.
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We bought this machine in january 2010. That would be very quick.
I tried with a managed switch to set the speed to 100Mbit and this works. But what with the unmanaged switches?
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I tried with a managed switch to set the speed to 100Mbit and this works. But what with the unmanaged switches?
You have no choice but to rely on autonegotiation on the unmanaged switches (or force to half duplex only, you cannot force to full on an unmanaged switch). Given that's a newer NIC model, the newer driver in 2.0's FreeBSD 8.1 base may behave better, if it's a driver issue (possible, but hard to say).
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Is there a way to use the newer drivers in the pfSense 1.2.3 release?
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I just helped someone out last week with a similar issue, on 1.2.3 the bce network cards would never get link above 10Mbit. Upgraded to 2.0 and it worked great at 1Gbit.
