On 02/02/10 11:58, Alexander Norman wrote: > Try firmware upgrade on your broadcom network card. > We had some issues where the broadcom cards would only recognize gigabit > linkspeed but fail at 100mbit ports.
interesting, not sure how to do that TBH, these are embedded broadcom NICs on the Dell R300 motherboard, the machine is single-boot pfsense and I would doubt that broadcom provide a freeBSD flashing tool; could possibly boot a linux live CD if there was one. at the moment I'm not even sure I could find out what version of firmware is installed! the other half of the firewall cluster is an identical R300 bought at the same time, and that runs happily at gigabit speeds. colleague suggested swapping round the switch ports to see if that solves the problem - a lot easier than finding a spare switch port and reconfiguring to match. it's a cisco 3560E (non-blocking unlike the cheaper G) so I hope it's not a duff port, these things are not the cheapest devices to replace :-/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
