Dear list I have 2 amd64 4.3 boxes with identical hardware. On host 1, one of the interfaces (em1) on trunk0 only connects at 100M, I have tried different cables, different switch ports, different switches, .......
# ifconfig em1 media 1000BaseT mediaopt full-duplex em1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:21:7f trunk: trunkdev trunk0 media: Ethernet 1000baseT full-duplex (none) status: no carrier inet6 fe80::2a0:d1ff:fee7:217f%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 # ifconfig em1 media autoselect ---connection hangs - (it comes back if I wait a minute) # ifconfig em1 em1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:21:7f trunk: trunkdev trunk0 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active inet6 fe80::2a0:d1ff:fee7:217f%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 Host 1 # cat /etc/hostname.trunk0 trunkproto loadbalance trunkport em1 trunkport em4 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # cat /etc/hostname.em1 up # ifconfig em1; ifconfig em4; ifconfig trunk0 em1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:21:7f trunk: trunkdev trunk0 media: Ethernet 1000baseT full-duplex (none) status: no carrier inet6 fe80::2a0:d1ff:fee7:217f%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 em4: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:21:7f trunk: trunkdev trunk0 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fe4b:7135%em4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 trunk0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:21:7f trunk: trunkproto loadbalance trunkport em4 active trunkport em1 master,active groups: trunk media: Ethernet autoselect status: active inet6 fe80::2a0:d1ff:fee7:217f%trunk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 Host 2 # cat /etc/hostname.trunk0 trunkproto loadbalance trunkport em1 trunkport em4 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # cat /etc/hostname.em1 up # ifconfig em1; ifconfig em4; ifconfig trunk0 em1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:20:0f trunk: trunkdev trunk0 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,master) status: active inet6 fe80::2a0:d1ff:fee7:200f%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 em4: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:20:0f trunk: trunkdev trunk0 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fe3d:c7e3%em4 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 trunk0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:d1:e7:20:0f trunk: trunkproto loadbalance trunkport em4 active trunkport em1 master,active groups: trunk media: Ethernet autoselect status: active inet6 fe80::2a0:d1ff:fee7:200f%trunk0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 Is it just a bad network card? Anything else I can try? - B. Franklan