Web Gui Reports Half-Duplex, Provider shows Full-Duplex?

mevans336

Hello Everyone,

I am running pfSense 2.0.1 AMD64. My WAN connection is an Intel E1G42ET PCI-Express 8x NIC using the igb driver.

The webgui reports I am connected at 100Mbps, half-duplex, but my provider's Cisco is showing 100Mbps, full-duplex.

GigabitEthernet1/35 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet Port, address is 001e.f777.f2e2 (bia 001e.f777.f2
e2)
  Description: P10:ALPHA002:V393:
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is 10/100/1000-TX
  input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input never, output never, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 46w0d
  Input queue: 0/2000/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 1824
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 1000 bits/sec, 1 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 2000 bits/sec, 3 packets/sec
     2232613813 packets input, 1905025826879 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 34790611 broadcasts (52 multicast)
     4530 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     4730 input errors, 200 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     2107886321 packets output, 448169273294 bytes, 0 underruns

The other connection out of this card to a GigE switch reports the correct 1000Mbps, full-duplex.

So who is correct, pfSense or my provider?

cmb

what's their port set to? Sounds like they're both right, you have yours on auto, theirs is forced, and as to be expected with such a misconfiguration, you have a duplex mismatch. Both must match.

mevans336

@cmb:

what's their port set to? Sounds like they're both right, you have yours on auto, theirs is forced, and as to be expected with such a misconfiguration, you have a duplex mismatch. Both must match.

The code I included is what they sent me. I can't tell if that says it's set to 100FD or Auto.

However, on my standby box, I played around and when set to 100FD, everything worked fine. Should I just go ahead and force that my primary too? I tried to force 1000Mbps to check but the port totally dropped.

(EDIT)

I forced both the active and passive to 100FD and it seems as if things are much smoother now. I was having erratic upload speeds when I would run a speedtest.net test, but now things are nearly 100Mbs up and down.

Thanks as always cmb.