NASLite Network Attached Storage

I put a Gigabit NIC (Netgear GA311) whose chipset is supported by NL M2 and rebooted my machine but the Gigabit Switch is reporting and NL is reporting that the NIC is only running at 100Mbs. Do I need to do something to force NL/NIC to run at 1000Mbs?

Lance

Not that I know of. Try a differnt PCI slot. And what Motherboard are you using ?
( I will assume you are using good cable and connectors. )

The cable i've tested on my PC and it works for Gb there no problems so I think the cable is good. I've tried different ports on the switch as well just in case that was the problem but that didn't change anything.

The Mobo is a TForce 6100-939 and works fine at 100Mbs but just won't go to 1000Mbs.

Do you think that switching the PCI slot (there are only 2 and the other has a RAID card in it) would help the card to run at Gb speed for Mb speed?

Lance

the motherboard has an onboard network card - could that be having an influence - try turning it off in bios and check the setting in naslite is pointing to last for the nic

dont know if either will help - just ideas

Thanks,

Yeah I turned off the onboard nic (and everything else that wasn't necessary)...It only shows one nic in the NL log....is there something in there that I could be looking for?

Lance

not near a box at the moment - itheres a setting that alters the nic if you have more than one - option 1 i think and - network settings?? - first/last?? - cannot see that being it but worth looking

what do you see on 'T' option - and then '9' - that gives report on status settings for nic

Tony,

Thanks for the quick reply....I tried switching PCI slots just in case but that didn't seem to do anything for me...

On the T->9 I get the following:

Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negoation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: Internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Suppors Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current Message level: 0x000000033 (51)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <Mac Address>
inet addr:192.168.0.175 Bcast: 192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
RX packets 1027 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 413 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes231648 (226.2 KiB) TX bytes 150076 (146.5 KiB)
Interrupt 10 Base address 0xa000

The onboard nic doesn't have a network cable and I'm connecting to the box so that would mean the right nic is working right? (Even though the other is off)

Thanks again,

Lance

end of my knowledge - you need someone else to jump in

LOL, thanks Tony..I do appreciate it...I don't absolutely need this guy running at GB speeds but it would be nice...It seems to serve the 2 or 3 machines pulling video off of it at 100Mbs just fine.


Thanks,

Lance

daft question - whats the nics in the machines you are serving to - i assume they are gigabit as is the router - switch

This is my setup....

NL-----> Netgear GS105 Gigabit Switch <----- Asus P6T Deluxe V2 onboard nic (Win 7 64bit)
^
|
100Mb DLink Router-----

The P6T Deluxe shows up with 2 lights (meaning 1Gb) and the NL and router show up at 100Mbs (Single light on 100Mb side, 10Mb is off)

So the two machines that I'm testing this on (I'm just testing right now before moving everything over to gigabit) are on the Gigabit switch and it's BLOCKED_WORD to the router for internet connectivity.

Lance

but will not the router come into play at some time and pull the system down to 100MB as thats connected to the switch

what happens if you disconnect the switch from the router - ok you have lost internet connection but have taken the only 100Mb device out of the loop - know its no good long term but if the nasbox jumps up to 1000Mb then thats the reason

Well i had queried about that exact scenario and was told that the prosafe GS105 would not drop down and the Win 7 machine shows it at 1Gb just not the NL box. I did try hooking just the NL box up to the swtich (since I have a static IP on my NL box) and the 100Mbs light is the only one that comes on. so that totally removes the 100Mbs from the switch but still no 1Gb connection.

This is really wierd...

Lance

hmmmm - you have me thinking now - does the netgear nic have a bios - some do - although is usually only to turn the boot rom on or off - if it does can you limit its speed via it

time somebody else put their 2 penneth in

I have my PC and Server connected to my GS605 and both operate at 1Gbit. The Router is connected to the GS105 too. If I connect the server to the router it only connects at 100Mbit.

Essentially you must ensure that all links in the chain between the server and the client are gigabit (including ethernet cables).

Don't forget that the router is probably acting as the DHCP server in your setup and you should ensure that the server's IP address is outwith the range that the router is permitted to allocate.