I have Unraid 6.10.4 on an ASUS WRX80 PRO WIFI. Both of the onboard NICs are supposed to go up to 10gbps. I have a 2.5gbps switch and both NICs will only do 1000mbps or lower for some reason. I've tried 3 brand new Cat 6a cables and from the switch to my modem show 2.5gbps but the WRX80 to the switch trying those same 3 short cables only do 1gbps. 

 

Rebooting doesn't help. 

diagnostics, please...

 

EDIT:  in a new post in this thread.  Otherwise, no one will be aware that you posted them..

Edited November 23, 20223 yr by Frank1940

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I looked at your Diagnostics file.  The ethtool.txt file (in the system folder of your Diagnostics file)  indicates that you have a 4 port 10Gb Intel NIC installed and they are capable of 'doing' 10Gb/s.  You have ports eth0 and eth1 connected to a switch.   However, the negotiated speed is 1000Mb/s for those ports.  This would imply that there is a problem on the switch side of the equation...

The 2.5Gb Switch has no issues with other 2.5Gb ethernet ports. I've tried them all. It's only the 2 10Gb Ethernet ports on this motherboard I am having issues with. The other 2 10Gb ports are SPF+ and I can't find my SFP+ to RJ-45 adapter so I can't use them yet. 

 

I even tried another 2.5Gb switch and same results.

 

Is there a chance this could be a CPU mounting issue preventing those ports from working properly since this is an LGA type CPU? I do have a weird issue with one of my PCIe slots where it bricks the BIOS if I set the slot to 4x4x4x4 and use the included ASUS Hyper NVMe card.

You have a real head scratcher.   I assume you have checked for a BIOS update.  You might want to Google the problem and see what you find there...

Already have latest BIOS which only adds support for the 5000 series Threadripper Pro CPUs.  Already tried searching Google but I suck at that which is why I posted here.

You could try a different OS to rule out any driver issues.

If you are the tinkering type and have a bit of free time, you might want to try version 6.10.3 and see what happens with it.  You can find it here:

 

      https://unraid.net/download

I've used 6.11.2 to 6.11.4 and all do 1000mbps. Haven't upgraded to 6.11.5 yet as I was copying stuff to the server so couldn't update yet. 

 

EDIT: I see you said 6.10.3. My brain read 6.11.3. Whoops.

Edited November 25, 20223 yr by chuckthetekkie

The reason being that version 6.11.0 uses Linux kernel version 5.19.9.  Unraid Version 6.10.3 uses Linux kernel version 5.15.46.  (Unraid version 6.11.5 uses Linux kernel version 5.19.17.)     NIC driver issues with new Linux kernel versions are not unknown...

I tried both 6.10.3 and 6.9.2 and they both do 1gbps. While Unraid is booting the link lights on the Switch go from 2.5gbps to 1gbps.  I installed Windows 10 to an empty SSD and both ethernet port can do 2.5gbps.  Haven't tried 6.11.5 yet. 

 

EDIT: Well 6.11.5 didn't fix it. 

Edited November 28, 20223 yr by chuckthetekkie
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Any other ideas on why the onboard NICs are only negotiating at 1000mbps rather than 2500?

 

I even reseated the CPU incase it was a PCIe issue.

 

I's weird how the switch will initially show 1gbps while posting than 2.5gbps during initial Unraid boot up then 1gbps after Unraid loads the NIC drivers. 

If it works with Win10 is suggests a Linux in tree driver issue, problem is that the Intel Linux out of tree drivers usually cause different issues, best bet it to wait for a newer release with a newer in tree driver, soon also there should be an option to easily install out of tree drivers with Unraid, so you can then try those.

Got to love Murphy's Law. 

At least the dual 10G SFP+ card I have installed works at 10G so I just reordered the Network card settings in Unraid to use that card instead.  Hopefully new Linus drivers come out to fix the issue. I would expect some weird no name network card not work properly but an Intel NIC not working properly seems unusual. At least my motherboard has plenty of PCIe slots to go around.