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 01/02/10 18:54, Chris Buechler wrote:
Sure you're using CAT5e or better cables and not just CAT5? That's the
most common cause when I run into things like that.
thanks for the idea, but all our cables are cat6, and it's only a 1m
cable directly from back of server into the switch so no
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.
// Alexander
Paul Mansfield skrev:
On 01/02/10 18:54, Chris Buechler wrote:
Sure you're using CAT5e or better cables and not
Try a firmware upgrade or downgrade.
The broadcom firmware has been a bit shaky.
The easiest way to do it is to install for example windows 2008 server
(30 day evaluation) and do a firmware upgrade through it.
// Alexander
Paul Mansfield skrev:
comparing the two firewalls it does appear
On 02/02/10 12:19, Alexander Norman wrote:
Try a firmware upgrade or downgrade.
The broadcom firmware has been a bit shaky.
The easiest way to do it is to install for example windows 2008 server
(30 day evaluation) and do a firmware upgrade through it.
I had a horrible feeling you were
after complaint about slowness between our lan and dmz, I traced it to a
firewall interface on our pfsense 1.2.3 firewall, a Dell R300 with
onboard broadcom bcm5722
FreeBSD fwa.xxx.yyy 7.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sun Dec 6
23:20:31 EST 2009
On 01/02/10 13:03, Paul Mansfield wrote:
I bounced the interface as suggested and it didn't help, and swapped the
cable, also no joy.
oh. and a reboot didn't fix it either.
;-(
# dmesg | egrep -i broadcom|bcm|bgr|bge|ukp|mii|phy
bge0: Broadcom BCM5722 A0, ASIC rev. 0xa200 mem
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Paul Mansfield
it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote:
after complaint about slowness between our lan and dmz, I traced it to a
firewall interface on our pfsense 1.2.3 firewall, a Dell R300 with
onboard broadcom bcm5722
FreeBSD fwa.xxx.yyy 7.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD
