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Virtual XG Interfaces only showing 1GB/s

Jonas Keller over 5 years ago

My Virtual Sophos XG running on VMware ESXi has a 10Gb/s physical NIC. But the Sophos VM only shows the Virtual NICs with a Speed of 1000Mb/s.

Why don't they show up with a speed of 10Gb/s?

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0 FormerMember over 5 years ago

Hi Jonas Keller,

I have virtual XG firewall in my LAB environment and link speed is 10000Mb/s on an interface. Could you please SSH into XG firewall by following this KB Article: Sophos XG Firewall: How to SSH to the firewall using PuTTY utility and navigate to option 5(Device Management) > Option 3 (Advanced Shell) and run this command "ethtool PortA" and share the output?

Replace the interface name accordingly. In my case it was PortA.

Thanks,
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0 tai1spin over 5 years ago

Which version of the FW are you running? I noticed the same thing when I tried out SG FW v18 Early access. I've since reverted to 17.5.9 MR9 and am doing just dandy with it.
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0 FormerMember over 5 years ago in reply to tai1spin

Hi tai1spin,

In my LAB I have virtual XG running on 17.5.9 MR9.

Thanks,
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0 LuCar Toni over 5 years ago in reply to FormerMember

There is a bug in the virtual driver of VMware right now.

The auto negotiation seems to be broken.

Try to switch to other driver. Try VMnet3 https://communities.vmware.com/thread/463728
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