I actually have an issue with a Netgear gigabit NIC taking over 60 seconds once pfsense was loaded to finish auto negotiating the gigabit speed. It would show the interface up at 100 mbit, as confirmed by my gigabit switch but nothing could touch the inside interface until it finally switched over to gigabit. makes it insanely long for firewall to come back up after a reboot. -Sean 43 C8 C0 EA B0 E9 05 FF C8 6F 19 F9 2C 37 88 F177 F9 A5 68 BD F4 4A A3 F1 4B 86 81 8A F6 CA 8896 42 8A C7 16 D7 D5 F8 C2 EA C2 7F 63 12 BE 889F 9C F1 F4 9D 91 8E F3 06 A9 7E 46 C5 99 93 DAD1 6E E7 D9 21 76 62 1A EB FF A4 D1 8E D0 D5 21These 128-bit numbers are protected under theDigital Millenium Copyright Act in reference tohttp://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:40:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Configuring NICs speed / > full duplex> > Alexandre Blardone wrote:> > Hello,> >> > I'd like to force > 100Mbps full duplex on my WAN interface,> > I know i have to add the > following in the config file for the WAN > > interface section> > > <media>100baseTX</media>> > <mediaopt>full-duplex</mediaopt>> > > <bandwidth>100</bandwidth>> > <bandwidthtype>Mb</bandwidthtype>> > Is that > all i have to do ? > > If you're going to force, you have to force whatever > device your WAN > port is connected to (switch, modem, router, or...) or > you'll end up > with a duplex mismatch. You usually don't want to force speed > and > duplex, no networking vendor recommends this practice anymore though > > it's commonly ingrained in some people's heads because when autoneg was > > first introduced it didn't always work well. This is 2007, not 1997, you > > almost always want to use auto.> > > > Is there a way to check what the > connection negotiated to (10 vs > > 100Mbps, half vs full duplex)?> > Status > -> interfaces.> > > > Should i also use that to set the other interfaces to > gigabit ?> > The gig E standard requires autonegotiation (and must be full > duplex) > but you can set 1000baseTX. Again, I wouldn't recommend it. It > can't > force with gig, I presume what the driver does in that case is only > > advertises itself as a gigabit capable device and if the other side > can't > negotiate at gigabit it won't bring up the interface.> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------> To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________________ See what you’re getting into…before you go there. http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGWL_migration_HM_viral_preview_0507
