General Questions

Hi!

First of all, as it is my first post here: thanks a lot for an excellent product!

I've read through different posts, I didn't find so many, about problems getting an interface to work at preferable speed. I didn't however find an real answer to my question.

m0n0wall is written to a CF-card on an CF/IDE-adapter (Intel P3, 128MB RAM, two 3Com cards with support for 10/100base full-duplex). The system has worked perfectly well for close to two years. The WAN interface has never been beyond 10baseT/UTP, which has been alright because the theoretical top speed hasn't been more than 1mbit/s (WAN connected to a cable-modem). Now however our provider has upgraded us to fiber, meaning that the speed could be well over 20mbit/s (WAN connected to a fiber-to-fast-Ethernet converter). So we are having a bottleneck situation.

Is there any logical reason for why a 10/100base card always is set to only 10base? Is there any workaround for this?

Regards,

Kimo Lee