Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:28:45 -0700 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: Why ain't I getting gigabit speed? Message-ID: <F03C262C-E798-4062-8B17-59F045ADB82D@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <18120.1360278807@tristatelogic.com> References: <18120.1360278807@tristatelogic.com>
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On Feb 7, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> =
wrote:
> I just aquired a brand new chepie gigabit PCI ethernet card off eBay.
> The main chip on it appears to be an RTL8110S-32.
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> I stuck this card into a 9.1-RELEASE system that I have been putting
> together, and it seemed to be recognized ok (as re0) upon boot up, so
> I diddled my /etc/rc.conf file to get it to ifconfig as 192.168.1.3
> on reboot. Then I rebooted.
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> I have the card wired via a CAT6 cable to my Linksys E2000 gigabit
> router. Nonetheless, upon reboot, followed by "ifconfig -a", the
> output from ifconfig says the following for this card:
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> re0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu =
1500
> =
options=3D8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGI=
C,LINKSTATE>
> ether 00:13:3b:02:03:bd
> inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> inet6 fe80::213:3bff:fe02:3bd%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7=20
> nd6 options=3D29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
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> I've tried two different CAT6 cables, two different LAN ports on my =
E2000,
> and I've even tried the card in two different PCI slost on my =
motherboard,
> but the results are always the same.
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> So, um, what gives? Why does the driver appear to be setting this =
card to
> 100baseTX rather than the 1000baseTX that I was hoping for?
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> Is there some magic spell that I am unaware of that I must cast on =
this
> in order to get it to work right?
I would suspect the switch ("router"). FYI:
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=3D11&t=3D47421#p213242
I have an re interface on my FreeBSD router and it connects at 1000baseT =
no problem.
> P.S. dmesg has this to say about the card:
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> re0: <RealTek 8169/8169S/8169SB(L)/8110S/8110SB(L) Gigabit Ethernet> =
port 0xbe00-0xbeff mem 0xdf9ff000-0xdf9ff0ff irq 18 at device 5.0 on =
pci4
> re0: Chip rev. 0x04000000
> re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> re0: Ethernet address: 00:13:3b:02:03:bd
> re0: link state changed to UP
> re0: link state changed to DOWN
> re0: link state changed to UP
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