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10 gigabit per second version of Ethernet protocol, using either copper or fiber cables

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Cannot get over 100k iops from storage on 10g network on 4k random blocks

My setup description: storage system for vm storage: supermicro server, 1-socket Xeon E5-2620 v4, 82599ES-intel-based RA-Link 10GE network adapter, 8x pci-e 2.0, plugged in 8x pci-e 3.0 slot, debian ...
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Is there any cheap way to convert from CX4 to RJ45? [closed]

I have an HP ProCurve 2900 with 2 x CX4 10Gb ports in the back. And I want to somehow link it with my internet provider 10Gb hub, which only has a 10Gb RJ45 connector. So far I was only able to find ...
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HS22 10 GB network

I want to switch from 1 GB ethernet connection to 10 GB on HS22 blades which are installed in a H chassis. On the storage side, I have installed 8GB FC cards which are connected via the MSIM to a 8 GB ...
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Protocol conversion: 10GBASE-KR to 10GBASE-R

I wanted to get some insight if anyone is aware of transceivers or translation devices that would be able to convert 10GBASE-KR to 10GBASE-R. The intent is to support a 10GBASE-KR interface from a VPX ...
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sfp and sfp28 compatibility

I have gotten a server which has "Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter" When I connect it to a switch port which is sfp the link status on the server is reported as ...
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Will 10GBASE-LR work if 10GBASE-LRM used to work on the same cable link?

We have got some old 62.5um single-mode fiber links in our building. Network people told me, that Cisco 10GBASE-LRM with Cisco mode conditioning patch cables works fine on those cables and provides a ...
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Why am I only achieving 2.5Gbps over a 10Gbe direct connection between 2 machines?

I have 2 machines directly connected to each other with a 7 foot Cat6a ethernet cable (included in the box of the NIC cards). The PCIe x4 NIC I bought and in both machines is this: https://www.amazon....
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how to test 10G NIC in loopback for full throughput?

I am using 10G NIC x520-DA2 (which is x8 Lane) in windows 10 Enterprise 64 Bit on DELL Optiplex 7080 Tower with Intel Core i7-10700 . X520-DA is installed on PCie slot 2 of optiplex 7080 that is PCIe ...
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Use Core Switch as an L2 Access Switch

Can I use a CORE switch as an ACCESS Layer 2 switch? The end goal is to connect all servers through at least a 10Gb network. The servers each have high volumes of data that will be transferring back ...
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What is the clock frequency inside 10Gb and 100Gb Ethernet cards?

As I understand, a 10Gb Ethernet card is capable of putting 10Gb every second on (say) a fibre optics cable. Now naively, for this to happen in hardware, one will need a 10GHz clock running the ...
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Very slow write speed (NVME drive) on 10G network

Setting up an experimental lab cluster, the write speed for data received via 10G fiber connection is 10% of the local write speeds. Testing transfer speed between two identical machines; iperf3 shows ...
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"Unsupported module type was detected" during boot of Intel X520/I350 card in Dell PowerEdge R630

I've purchased a Dell PowerEdge R630 with an integrated Intel X520/I350 (2x SFP + 2x RJ45) network card. I've setup the server locally (on a 1G RJ45 network) to test that everything worked as expected ...
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Why can I get on <1G on my 10G Network?

I have 4 CentOS 7 boxes with SuperMico 10000BaseT NICs plugged into a Netgear ProSafe XS712T switch with Cat8 cables. Switch is all default settings, but shows NICs at 10G Full. NICs are configured: ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Server - eth0 1Gbps NIC eth1 10Gbps NIC - all traffic using eth0?

UPDATE: (per request below) serveradmin@FILESERVER:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 FILESERVER # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-...
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What transceiver can convert 10GBASE-KR or 10GBASE-KX4 to 10GBASE-T or 1000BASE-KX to 1GBASE-T? [closed]

A pci-e network card supports 1000BASE-KX, 10GBASE-KX4 and 10GBASE-KR on SFP connector, but the required mode for twisted pair support on RJ45 (8P8C connector) is 1G- or 10GBASE-T. What type of ...
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How is 10GBASE-T defined for providing compatibility?

Is there a common source for description (like for "data link layer" and might include electrical specification of "physical layer") of 10GBASE-T as standard for technical devices? Considering ...
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Ethernet bond interface fails after NIC replacement

I've replaced a failing 10GbE adapter in a Dell PowerEdge server running a bonded pair of Cat6 cables to an aggregate switch. The old NIC and its replacement are both Intel Ethernet Controllers (10-...
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Connect two local networks

I'm trying to connect two local networks together. Network 1 (192.168.1.1) is connected to 10GBe Internet via router with dhcp. I've added switch Netgear XS708T for more 10G ports (Clients 1 and 2). ...
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Getting 2g speeds on hyper-v VM through a 10g nic

I'm testing my speeds using IPERF as I've recently installed a 10G cisco switch and intel 10g NIC's on some servers to communicate with a nas server. I noticed my reads and write were awful so I've ...
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VMware ESXI - External PCI Ethernet Card [closed]

I have a beast of a home server and don’t fancy purchasing another device just to learn PFSense on my network. My server only has 1 Ethernet port, I have an external PCI card I bought off from amazon ...
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How to achieve multiple NFS/TCP connections to the same server?

I'm trying to maximize the NFS/TCP bandwidth between a Linux client and a single NFS server over a 10Gbps link. Although each NFS mount has its own device (major/minor), everything comes down to a ...
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Converter for RJ45 port to SFP+

2 of my servers have an Intel X552 network adapter that has 2x 10GbE RJ45 ports. All my other equipment is at least dual RJ45/SFP+. I'm looking at upgrading my core network to 10GbE and I'd like to ...
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linux 10gbe ixgbe (intel X550T) slow at 420mbyte/s max, p2p lan cat8 1m, tried ethtool and ifconfig options to no avail

first time dealing with 10gbe. I have two boxes, one is older with i7 2.8ghz from 2009 generation, pcie 2.0 and I just put the Intel X550T there to make use of absolutely similar but builtin adapter ...
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HP NC523SFP no link detected

I have two HP NC523SFP 10Gb 2-port (1 on a HP DL380e Gen8 and the other on Dell PowerEdge 2950) both systems have Centos 7, the cards are detect and are running the same firmware. I have connected ...
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Can this router and motherboard connect via the LAN 10G Port?

So I am a bit confused :) I have this unit, which advertises a "10G Lan SFP+" port http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/R9000/R9000_UM_EN.pdf And I am thinking of buying this motherboard ...
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Why is there a difference in speed of forward and reverse traffic over 10 G network in iperf tool

I have a 10G network setup between my two servers (say, Server1 and Server2) and I'm using iperf tool to measure the bandwidth of the network. Here are test cases that I performed, Test Case 1: (...
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10G SFP+ Synology NAS to SuperMicro X10

I'm trying to directly connect my Synology NAS to a SuperMicro X10 built PC: Synology DS1618+ 10Gtek MCX312B-XCCT PCIe NIC Using 10Gtek SFP-H10GB-CU1.5M DAC cable Supermicro X10SDV-8C-TLN4F+ mobo w/ ...
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Windows Server 2016 Installation doesn't found Network adpter (Hard Drive Found!)

I have a just bought PowerEdge T640 server and i am trying to install Windows Server 2016 Standard. I have downloaded the Windows Server 2016 ISO and mount a bootable pendrive using Rufus. I boot the ...
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10GBASE-T Performance in Windows 7

This is my scenario: -Workstation1: CPU i7-3770 / 16GB ram / Gigabyte Z77-D3H motherboard / Crucial CT256MX100SSD1 Sysyem Disk / Network adapter intel X540-T1 / Windows 7 64bit -Workstation2: CPU i7-...
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10GbE sfp+ cross over cable required? Is there such a thing?

To preface, this is my first experience with 10GbE networking and I have encountered an issue which my research does not seem to locate a solution for... I have two servers (older DL580G5 and DL380G5)...
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Fastest solution to use FTP/Aspera/MediaShuttle with SAN network

At my postpro studio we have a SAN Network (Stornext 6). There is also a MediaShuttle and FTP server in a VM on the firewall (I know, I know... Not my fault, really xD). The VM is sharing SAN over ...
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Why is my data throughput only 1G of possible 10G if I setup an ethernet bridge?

My setup is a Windows 10 PC with 10G card (LR-LINK 6880BT) and a Synology DS1618+ NAS with 10G card (Synology E10G18-T1). Both 10G ports are connected directly to avoid buying a 10G switch. A) How ...
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Can you mix 10gb and Infiniband for iScsi storage target

I'm setting up a Fedora server to act as an iScsi storage target. The primary storage network will be 25gb Infiniband. Is it possible and/or safe to also allow the target to be accessed by 10gb ...
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Why does my samba server serve data so slowly even when said data is cached?

I have a CentOS 5.6 server with the base Samba install. It has an 8 drive Raid 5 attached to an Areca 1880, hdparm tests give me back ~450MBps and I can confirm close to that with a dd to /dev/null. ...
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how to tell if NIC has multiqueue enabled?

Can anyone tell me what command i run to determine if my 10G NIC is running in single RX-TX queue mode or multiqueue? It looks like it only has 1 RX/TX queue according to cat /proc/interrupts root@...
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Intel x550 not negotiating to 10Gb

We have a machine with an Intel x550 and a Cisco Nexus N9K-C9372-PX-E. For whatever reason, it will only negotiate at 1Gb, even though it is 10Gb capable and is being plugged into a 10Gb switch. This ...
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What to expect from a 10Gbs fiber optic network of one server connected directly to 4 clients?

I have a fiber optic network of one server connected directly to 4 clients(they are not connected to each other) The network is suppose to support up to 4x10Gbs, so 10Gbs throughput from each client ...
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Direct attach sfp+ cables (passive) connection issues after power restoration

I have got two servers with SFP+ capable network cards connected to the Unifi Switch uplink ports. Each of the servers has its own UPS and the switch shares the UPS with one of the servers. The ...
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Serializing pcap file into 4B chunks [closed]

Given a previously generated pcap file, how do I serialize the data into 4B (or N byte) chunks. The format/protocol of the pcap data is not relevant here.
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What is a 4x 10gbe QSFP-QSFP cable?

I was looking for QSFP cables on Ebay and came across a Brocade 58-0000033-01 marked as 4x 10GE even though it has one QSFP connector on each end. I don't understand what this cable is for, will it ...
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Using non-FUJITSU 10Gb Ethernet Cards in FUJITSU servers

We are currently trying to upgrade old servers to 10Gb connections. The servers in question are: PRIMERGY RX200 S6 PRIMERGY RX300 S5 Our FUJITSU partner told us that there were no cards available by ...
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How to connect a Juniper EX4500 to netapp X1107A

What is the best and not expensive way to connect a Juniper EX4500 to a X1107A Chelsio PCI Netapp card? Will these do (10GBASE-SR) for both end? and then connect with fiber cable? How important is it ...
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Network performance with an i7 6700 Skylake

We're looking into setting up multiple servers with Nginx; the estimated required capacity is 60 Gbps (six-zero gigabit per second) A nearby datacenter offers us servers with "i7-6700 Quad-Core ...
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Direct connect 10GBE with fibre

I have two servers that I wish to direct connect with 10GBE. One server has an Oracle Sun 10GBE (Intel 82599) with dual SFP+ pluggable transceivers installed. The other has an HP 10GB MELLANOX ...
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Not sure I really get 10 Gbit between our servers on the 10 Gbit network

We have a 3 Unix (1 Ubuntu 2 Redhat) servers connected via their 10 Gbit network cards to a 10 Gbit switch (our IT person made sure we got the correct cables). We experience some odd behaviour when ...
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Do 10GbE SFP transceivers need to match?

I'm looking to connect a Promise SanLink 10GbE SFP NIC to a Cisco 10GbE switch. My general question is whether the transceivers need to match. In other words, do I need to find a transceiver which is ...
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How many "joins" allowed for 10GbE copper?

I wonder how many "jacks" are allowed for running copper (Cat6a and Cat7) link for 10GbE connections. Questions is pretty simple but I am confused about "link segment" term. From specification it ...
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ESXI, pfSense, 10gbE

Good day all! I will try and make this short and sweet. My current setup is: XS708T NETGEAR 10gbE switch ESXi Machine #1: 2x Intel 10gbE pfSense (VM) with WAN on one vSwitch, LAN on other vSwitch, ...
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How to connect MD3800i (iSCSI 10 GbE) to PowerConnect 8132F (SFP+ 10 GbE)

I want to connect a SAN (MD3800i) to a PowerConnect 8132F switch. Both support 10 Gbit Ethernet, but the 1st does it via iSCSI (RJ-45), while the second - via SFP+. Any adapter that could go in ...
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Dell X4012 copper options?

I've been using the Dell X4012 12x 10GbE switches with fibre and DAC cabling in several of our locations for a year now, and their lack of SFP+ ID checking made them easy to integrate. However, now I ...