LinITX FX5620 gig ethernet issue

corvus

I have an FX 5620 that I've been using pfSense on for quite awhile. I've never gotten it to sync up with my netgear gigabit switch at gigabit speeds. Any ideas about how to get it working at gigabit?

Cry Havok

Try another switch? I've got a Belkin switch that it works fine with.

corvus

I don't have another brand of gige switch to try. I figure it's got to be a parameter, but I don't know how to tweak them in FreeBSD.

Cry Havok

It could just be problems with the switch auto-sensing - I've seen situations where 2 particular brands/products simply won't talk to each other. The only answer has been to swap one for another brand or model.

GruensFroeschli

Or just set the mode to something fixed.
Most switches i've seen do have the funtion to force a certain mode.
And somewhere on the forum should be a thread about how to force a certain mode on pfSense.

corvus

I found the info to force pfSense into a particular mode…I added:


			<media>1000baseTX</media>
			<mediaopt>full-duplex</mediaopt>
			<bandwidth>1000</bandwidth>

to the lan portion (re0) of config.xml, and it remains at 100. I don't there is a way to change the switch itself…

Any other hints?

GruensFroeschli

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2040.0.html

did you try ifconfig -m to find out what options are valid?
if you dont put them exactly as this command returns it wont work.