[CentOS] gigE -> 100Mb problems

Tue Oct 11 00:33:07 UTC 2016
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

I've got a pair of identical CentOS 6.7 servers, with SuperMicro X8DTE-F 
motherboards, these have 2 each Intel  82574L ethernet ports.  The eth0 
ports are plugged in with 10' runs of brand new cat 5e cable to a Cisco 
Nexxus 9000 switch (provided by the data center).

These servers keep coming up at 100baseT rather than gigE. I've swapped 
ports and cables with a different server, that server gets gigE but 
these supermicro's are stuck at 100baseT regardless of the port or 
cableused.

'ethtool eth0'  says its gigE, but 'mii-tool -v eth0' says its 100baseT 
and doesn't even list gigE as an option, and the cisco switches see it 
as 100baseT too.

anyone else run into anything like this before?




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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz