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peteybwild · 12-03-2009, 12:44 AM

I am a noob to Untangle but a friend showed it to me the other day at his school and I thought it would be useful at the school I work at.

I worked with our IT guy to attempt install last week. It failed. Over the past few days I think I have figured out why. The connection to our ISP requires at present that the external NIC run at 10mbps full mode. (We are using XP as a gateway to share the net connection to the school network and we always have to set the external NIC to 10mbps for the connection to work.)

Using Untangle's Advanced mode, I tried to change the ext NIC from Auto to 10. However, when I would save the change and return to the Interfaces screen, it would show that the card was back at 100. Then I read on the Untangle wiki that it is not possible to run at other than 100--Untangle doesn't offer that option. So, why does the option to lower the speed to 10 appear, but cannot be implemented? This seems strange. Why offer the option to change speeds if the software won't actually implement the change?

Are there any workarounds? (Of course, Auto mode ought to figure out that it needs to connect at 10mbps, but it cannot.) I am going to hound the ISP to change their hardware so that Auto/100 works and I can install Untangle. However, I'm working in Zambia and the responsiveness to customers is not legendary. Anything else I can do working with what I have?

Thanks.

12-03-2009, 12:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
peteybwild Newbie Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 5	need to connect to ISP at 10mbps I am a noob to Untangle but a friend showed it to me the other day at his school and I thought it would be useful at the school I work at. I worked with our IT guy to attempt install last week. It failed. Over the past few days I think I have figured out why. The connection to our ISP requires at present that the external NIC run at 10mbps full mode. (We are using XP as a gateway to share the net connection to the school network and we always have to set the external NIC to 10mbps for the connection to work.) Using Untangle's Advanced mode, I tried to change the ext NIC from Auto to 10. However, when I would save the change and return to the Interfaces screen, it would show that the card was back at 100. Then I read on the Untangle wiki that it is not possible to run at other than 100--Untangle doesn't offer that option. So, why does the option to lower the speed to 10 appear, but cannot be implemented? This seems strange. Why offer the option to change speeds if the software won't actually implement the change? Are there any workarounds? (Of course, Auto mode ought to figure out that it needs to connect at 10mbps, but it cannot.) I am going to hound the ISP to change their hardware so that Auto/100 works and I can install Untangle. However, I'm working in Zambia and the responsiveness to customers is not legendary. Anything else I can do working with what I have? Thanks.