On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Paul Mansfield <it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com> wrote: > after complaint about slowness between our lan and dmz, I traced it to a > firewall interface on our pfsense 1.2.3 firewall, a Dell R300 with > onboard broadcom bcm5722 > > FreeBSD fwa.xxx.yyy 7.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sun Dec 6 > 23:20:31 EST 2009 > sullr...@freebsd_7.2_pfsense_1.2.3_snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.7 > i386 > > > a bit of googling came up with this > http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/4b42a0fa82125473?pli=1 > > I bounced the interface as suggested and it didn't help, and swapped the > cable, also no joy. > > this firewall is one of a clustered pair, the 2ndry is identical > hardware and its bge0 is running fine at 1000baseT. the cisco switch > they're both plugged into doesn't suggest any errors. > > stuff reported in dmesg... > > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5722 A0, ASIC rev. 0xa200> mem 0xdfdf0000-0xdfdfffff > irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 > > brgphy0: <BCM5722 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0 > > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, > 1000baseT-FDX, auto > > > any suggestions please?
Sure you're using CAT5e or better cables and not just CAT5? That's the most common cause when I run into things like that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
