100mb on freenas

[Tong]

Rosewill RNG-407-Dual

I bought from newegg. Works fin if i install to my sbs 2011 same ports and wire to gigabit. Insert card to freenas and switch reports 100mb using auto. Manually setting to gigabit loses connection. Possible to update drivers for Realtek nics on freenas?

 

[dlavigne]

From ifconfig, which driver is the NIC using?

 

[Tong]

[root@freenas ~]# ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
ether 68:1c:a2:12:0a:2f
inet 192.168.10.30 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
inet6 fe80::6a1c:a2ff:fe12:a2f%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
re1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
ether 68:1c:a2:12:0a:30
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
re2: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
ether d4:3d:7e:4f:6a:56
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
ipfw0: flags=8801<UP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 65536
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
[root@freenas ~]#

 

[dlavigne]

I assume re0 is the NIC in question as it has an IP address? It is set to 1000baseT <full-duplex> and is showing as active. Are you sure it is plugged into the switch and there isn't anything limiting the config on the switch? If it isn't re0, which one is it?

 

[Tong]

My re0 is the onboard nic. works fine. My new addin card is re1 and re2. They are 100mb. Same card plugged into different windows server using same wires and switchports works at 1000mb

 

[dlavigne]

Just to be clear, how did you manually configure the gigabit setting? Please post the exact command or where you went in the GUI.

 

[Tong]

I configured from my switch. I just thought the auto detection was broken.

 

[Tong]

Any other suggestions to try? Or should I get an intel dual port nic card?

 

[dlavigne]

You could try setting a media type of 1000baseTX and a media option of full-duplex (from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&apropos=0&sektion=4) in the Options field of this screen. Sometimes tying these things down in the config works when auto-negotiation fails.

 

[Tong]

Thanks for the suggestions. I somehow got it to detect as 1000mb. I disabled other peripherals trying to troubleshoot an interrupt storm.