Sorry if this is a repost, it seems to have disappeared into the bit bucket.
I put a 3Com 3C996B-T 1000Mbps NIC in my system. It uses the tg3 (broadcom) driver, which I have compiled in. The kernel messages show the link at 1000. The light on the NIC shows this. The lights on the switch show this. ethtool eth1 shows this. However mii-tool eth1 shows 100. Also, the speeds I get over it (FTPing directly to eth1's address) are the same as 100Mbps or lower. Eth0 is a 100Mbps card, and is also the default route. Could incoming FTP connections, even directly connecting to eth1's IP, end up forced over eth0 (100Mbps) somehow? I can't think of another reason. Even then, I find it strange that mii-tool reports eth1 as 100Mbps. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
