Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)

2010-10-22 Thread James Bensley
On 21 October 2010 20:39, Christian Borchert ccb...@gmail.com wrote: I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest (2.6.4 iirc) and that has not resolved the issue.  I have tried with the onboard broadcom nic and a single intel pci gigabit nic, and also a single intel pcie nic.  No change in

Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)

2010-10-22 Thread Christian Borchert
I did some more testing. If both the LAN and WAN ports negotiate 1000 mbps, i can run 100 mbps FD through the router. However if either or both the WAN and/or LAN ports negotiate 100 mbps, I can only run 100 mbps down and ~ 50 mbps up. Can anyone else confirm this? Regards, Christian On

[pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)

2010-10-21 Thread Christian Borchert
I have a Dell Optiplex 745 SFFhttp://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/opti_745techspecs.pdf (Core 2 Duo) with an Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapterhttp://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000mt-dualport/pro1000mt-dualport-overview.htm I am running 2.0-BETA4 (i386)

Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)

2010-10-21 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Christian Borchert ccb...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried this network card in another machine (HP Core 2 Quad) and it works perfectly under the same test conditions. I have limited experience with Dell servers, but I have found some of their newer laptops

Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)

2010-10-21 Thread Seth Mos
Hi, Op 21 okt 2010, om 20:06 heeft Christian Borchert het volgende geschreven: I have a Dell Optiplex 745 SFF (Core 2 Duo) with an Intel PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Adapter What might be happening here is the somewhat peculiar setup of the pci slot(s) on the Dell optiplex machines. For

Re: [pfSense Support] Cannot achieve 100 mbps Full Duplex (C2D, Intel NICs)

2010-10-21 Thread Christian Borchert
I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest (2.6.4 iirc) and that has not resolved the issue. I have tried with the onboard broadcom nic and a single intel pci gigabit nic, and also a single intel pcie nic. No change in throughput. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Seth Mos seth@dds.nl wrote: