From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 19:33:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC97A106566B for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 19:33:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB758FC1C for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 19:33:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC636EBC0A; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:33:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:33:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: James Tanis Message-Id: <20090514153336.2010e70d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4A0C46DD.5000002@mdchs.org> References: <4A0C34DC.9040508@mdchs.org> <20090514115400.ab14bc9d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <4A0C46DD.5000002@mdchs.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:33:38 -0000 In response to James Tanis : > Bill Moran wrote: > > > Replace the cable. If the cable is marginal, autoneg will downgrade the > > speed to ensure reliability. Use a cable that you know will produce > > 1000baseTX because you've tested it on other systems. > > > Well, I don't have any verified working cable of the appropriate length > so I simply switched out the cables for the main server and the backup > server. They are both cat6 cables crimped with cat5e modules by me. For > what reason (bad crimp job?) that seemed to fix the issue. QC on patch cables is sketchy. Most places are usually good, but even the best companies will have a bad crimp every now and again. Add to that how they are generally handled ... I mean, statistically there's a good chance that cable was on the floor and someone stepped on it or something ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/