>From my understanding thats not a problem with the OS, but with the crossover >cable itself. The os is seeing it as a Gigabit card.
I believe a cat6 cable will work and give you the right speed, you may want to try that. Alternativly, the following should work if you crimp one yourself. Connector1 Connector2 -------------------------- Orange/white Green/White Orange Green Green/White Orange/White Blue Brown/White Blue/White Brown Green Orange Brown/White Blue Brown Blue/White -Rick On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:49:09PM -0200, Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: > Hi all! > > I have two servers here with two Intel E1000 NIC each. > > I'm planing on using the eth1 ethernet with DRBD. My problem is that > although the NICs support gigabit ethernet, they only negociate with > 100baseT/Full. I'm using a CAT-5E crossover cable between the servers. > > Here is my dmesg (both servers): > e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection > e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex > > My ethtool shows the following (both servers): > Settings for eth1: > Supported ports: [ TP ] > Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full > 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full > 1000baseT/Full > Supports auto-negotiation: Yes > Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full > 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full > 1000baseT/Full > Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes > Speed: 100Mb/s > Duplex: Full > Port: Twisted Pair > PHYAD: 0 > Transceiver: internal > Auto-negotiation: on > Supports Wake-on: umbg > Wake-on: g > Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) > Link detected: yes > > Does anyone have any tip? > > Best regards, > Daniel Colchete > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
