well, I simply swapped round the firewall's connections to the switch - both have just a 1m cable direct to the cisco 3560e
the primary firewall is now connecting at 1Gb/s and strangely the secondary is still at 1G, so I have no idea what the problem was. tis a pity that Dell use broadcom on-board and not intel. oh well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org