Esxi 5.0 NICS are down permanently. How do I get them to work?

[NunoMMS]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting nics to work (or be "up"). As you can see in the images below ESXi detects all nics but they simply will not work. I have tried the following comand: esxcli network nic up -n "nicname" but it doesnt change anything. Is there some kind of limitation?

Your help would be very much appreciated.

[vijayrana968]

Have you checked these NICs physically ? Are they connected properly to a network device ?

[NunoMMS]

Yes, they are properly connected to a network device. If I change the cables between the working nic and the others they work just fine.

[NunoMMS]

When I run esxcli network nic get -n "nicname", on the Link Status I get "Down by explicit linkSet"... dont know if this means anything?

[vijayrana968]

So the problem is with configured speed of these Realtek NICs. Try with below command and check.

esxcli network nic set -n vmnicX -a

[NunoMMS]

I tried on one nic:

esxcli network nic set -n vmnic2 -a

and the result was this:

Does this mean it will not work as gigabit at full duplex? Because the card is gigabit!

[vijayrana968]

Right, check the specification provided by vendor.