Intel Dual Port NIC Question

We are running a Dell Poweredge 2900 and I have an Intel Pro/1000 PT Dual
Port NIC in the machine, running SBS2003 r2 (the Dell Broadcom adapters are
disabled in the BIOS). One of the ports (my external connection) connects to
my Gigabit switch at 1gb. The other port (internal connection) will only
connect at 100mbps. The adapter diagnostics says that the adapter is being
forced to a slower speed. I did the normal swapping of switches, cables and
made sure the drivers are current, but no luck. I talked to Intel, who
suggested completely removing and rinstalling the NIC drivers, which is my
next step.

Has anyone ever seen this behavior before? I thought about swapping the NIC
settings so that the port that runs at 1gb would be the internal and the
slower be the external, just to see what would happen. Any insight would be
appreciated.

Tom


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