SOLVED Cant get more than 100 base-t on PCI NIC

[dimitrow]

Hello,
I have a strange problem. I use a Dell T110 II with the latest version of TrueNas installed, one built-in network card and one additional installed (Intel PRO/1000 Dual Port). I recently upgraded my home network from 100Mbps to 1GbE. After doing that, my built-in NIC immediately recognized 1000baseT, but the extra one didn't.
I changed the cables(Cat5e-UTP prepatched), checked the Mikrotik settings several times, but all to no avail. I had a NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express on hand and installed it to see if the problem was in the card, but after installing it and booting the machine, the GUI shows the old two interfaces in UNKNOWN status and won't show the new one.

Would you help with any advice?

 

[MrGuvernment]

everything set to auto negotiate across switches, end points and truenas?

 

[jgreco]

The Broadcom cards generally suck.

The upgrade from 100Mbit to 1Gbps involves going from a dedicated transmit pair and a dedicated receive pair on each end (meaning only four of the eight wires in a cable are used for 100Mbps) to all four pairs being used with substantially more sophisticated encoding, and in both directions. Gigabit tends to tease out faults in networks. Make sure all your cables are rated at least Cat5 and also pass a cable test with a basic cable tester like an Ideal VDV 33-856 or any equivalent.

 

[jgreco]

everything set to auto negotiate across switches, end points and truenas?

That's a good point. Gigabit, of course, requires auto-negotiation as part of the protocol standard, but 100Mbps did not, and many cards required hack configuration workarounds to get them to link up.

 

[MrGuvernment]

That's a good point. Gigabit, of course, requires auto-negotiation as part of the protocol standard, but 100Mbps did not, and many cards required hack configuration workarounds to get them to link up.

Ya, it might of been yourself, or someone else who had posted that and it stuck in my head!

 

[dimitrow]

Thank you for the quick replies.
There is only Mikrotik in front of TrueNas and the card in question is attached to the 4th port. Port settings are auto-negotiate, all cables replaced and tested with a tester.

 

[dimitrow]

Guys I fixed it! I just manually through the console stopped and started the interface and things were fine ...

ifconfig bge1 down
ifconfig bge1 media autoselect up

And it's on 1000baseT now.

 

[jgreco]

ifconfig bge1 down
ifconfig bge1 media autoselect up

Yeah, well, that's crummy. Typical Broadcom.