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    ATTO NT11 10GB Cards

    Posted by Brian Smith on September 9, 2013 at 1:07 am

    Hi Just a quick question,

    Purchased two Atto NT11 10gb cards, Installed them into Slot 2 in two Mac Pro towers,verified in the mac config that they are in 8x slots and installed the current atto drivers for mac osx 10.8.4.
    I have both of them running into a netgear 10gb M7100 switch via cat 6e cables only around 10ft.
    In the switch i can see that it sees the connections as 10gbe.
    When i look in the networking panel on the Macs, it sees the card in the left hand window and shows me the PCI card in the PCI card slot.
    I assign them both a static IP address.
    However when i go into the Advanced Tab and Hardware, and try to configure the settings manually i do not see 10gbe under speed as an option, only 100baseTX and 1000baseT.
    Am i missing something? i thought the 10gb option speed would show up here?
    I tried a basic copy from one mac to the other mac, and it defiantly didn’t seem like 10gb speeds.
    Do i need to install Iperf and verify this?
    All i am looking to eventually do is move six of our macs onto this switch as well as a basic Linux file storage system to allow the moving of files around a little quicker than the current setup on 1000 ethernet.

    thanks

    Brian

    Bob Zelin replied 12 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • John Davidson

    September 10, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    Call Bob Zelin.

    John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

  • Bob Zelin

    September 13, 2013 at 12:14 am

    Did someone call my name ?

    I am an expert (maybe) on the Netgear 10G switches, and the
    ATTO 10gig cards in Mac enviornments.

    Call my CEL at (407) 257 9157

    The M7100-24X is an expensive switch ! We usually use the smaller ones.

    Bob Zelin

    Bob Zelin
    Rescue 1, Inc.
    maxavid@cfl.rr.com

  • Brian Smith

    September 17, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    Hey Bob,

    Thanks for the reply.
    As per atto its an osx bug, which is why 10GB wont show up under the speeds in custom settings.
    If i leave it on automatic, i get the 10gb speeds.
    although it was interesting to see the speed difference on an older mac with only PCI 1 slots of 8x over PCI2 8x slots.
    I do have a question regarding the switch that you may be able to help with.
    Right now I have a vlan in my enviroment dedicated to wireless, vlan2
    ID.
    I noticed on the netgear it assigns vlan2 to the voice vlan, is there a way to get rid of this? i tried through the terminal to delete the vlan2 but it denies me everytime.

    Thanks

    Brian

  • Bob Zelin

    September 17, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    I guess you don’t want to call me.

    Bob Zelin

    Bob Zelin
    Rescue 1, Inc.
    maxavid@cfl.rr.com

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