10GBaseT PCIe Card
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Hello,
I've been using Startech 10 Gbe Ethernet NIC with success from Sierra to Mojave.
It uses the Tehuti TN4010 chip that has drivers for Windows, Linux and macOS.
I've been using Startech 10 Gbe Ethernet NIC with success from Sierra to Mojave.
It uses the Tehuti TN4010 chip that has drivers for Windows, Linux and macOS.
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High Sierra native support for 10Gb ethernet
starting with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 there will be native support for Aquantia AQtion based 10GbE network cards. digging around in the latest developer beta of 10.13.2 revealed a KEXT named "AppleEthernetAquantiaAqtion.kext". path to the KEXT...
www.tonymacx86.com
My AQC107 based Syba card works fine with the build-in macOS drivers.
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It is possible to modify a generic Intel 10Gbe NIC to use it with the Smalltree driver.
I've copy pasted the instructions below, but be very careful, you will brick your card if you don't know what you are doing. I think I found them somewhere else on this forum, though I can't remember.
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FOLKS, PROCEED WITH CAUTION. THIS WILL WRITE TO THE CARD EEPROM AND INCORRECT USAGE COULD RENDER YOUR CARD USELESS. THESE STEPS ARE SPECIFIC TO MY INTEL X520-DA2 CARD ONLY. HOWEVER, WITH SOME WORK THEY CAN PROBABLY BE ADAPTED TO WORK ON MOST INTEL NETWORK CARDS.
First step, boot off Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop CD, run terminal and the following commands.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
TO LOCATE ethX:
ifconfig
TO BACKUP EEPROM (DO THIS!):
ethtool -e ethX raw on > ethX.bin
COMMAND WE NEED TO USE TO CHANGE OFFSET VALUES:
ethtool -E ethX magic 0x<device id><vendor id> offset 0x<offset> value 0x<value>
TO DETERMINE VENDOR, DEVICE AND SUBSYSTEM IDs:
lspci -nn -vvv | grep Ethernet
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [8086:10fb] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 [8086:7a11]
01:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [8086:10fb] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 [8086:7a11]
NOW, TO FIND THE RELEVANT OFFSETS!
Intel datasheet linked above states the following, but it doesn't seem to apply to my card:
PCIe Sub-System ID - Offset 0x08
Bits:15:0
Name:Sub System ID
Default: 0x0
By running the following command and eyeballing the offsets I've discovered that these are the two values on my Intel X520-DA2 card:
ethtool -e eth1 | less
"0x0320: 03 00 1f 00 00 00 00 2b 03 13 11 7a 86 80 a6 10"
So, if we start at offset 0x0320 you would count 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f for each pair of digits.
The values we need to change are 11 at 0x032a and 7a at 0x032b. We can remove the 0 to shorten to 0x32a and 0x32b
So, for an Intel X520-DA2 (8086:10fb), to set subsys ID of 0x000a we would run:
sudo ethtool -E eth1 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32a value 0x0a
sudo ethtool -E eth1 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32b value 0x00
sudo ethtool -E eth2 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32a value 0x0a
sudo ethtool -E eth2 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32b value 0x00
In order to allow the ethtool to write to the EEPROM you need the magic value specific to your card, which is: 0x<device id><vendor id>
The command below will show these values:
lspci -nn -vvv | grep Ethernet
NOTE these are not the Subsystem values, they are the device and vendor IDs, in this case 10fb and 8086.
Here's a useful reference:
http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/8086
Reboot and done!
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I've copy pasted the instructions below, but be very careful, you will brick your card if you don't know what you are doing. I think I found them somewhere else on this forum, though I can't remember.
----
FOLKS, PROCEED WITH CAUTION. THIS WILL WRITE TO THE CARD EEPROM AND INCORRECT USAGE COULD RENDER YOUR CARD USELESS. THESE STEPS ARE SPECIFIC TO MY INTEL X520-DA2 CARD ONLY. HOWEVER, WITH SOME WORK THEY CAN PROBABLY BE ADAPTED TO WORK ON MOST INTEL NETWORK CARDS.
First step, boot off Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop CD, run terminal and the following commands.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
TO LOCATE ethX:
ifconfig
TO BACKUP EEPROM (DO THIS!):
ethtool -e ethX raw on > ethX.bin
COMMAND WE NEED TO USE TO CHANGE OFFSET VALUES:
ethtool -E ethX magic 0x<device id><vendor id> offset 0x<offset> value 0x<value>
TO DETERMINE VENDOR, DEVICE AND SUBSYSTEM IDs:
lspci -nn -vvv | grep Ethernet
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [8086:10fb] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 [8086:7a11]
01:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [8086:10fb] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 [8086:7a11]
NOW, TO FIND THE RELEVANT OFFSETS!
Intel datasheet linked above states the following, but it doesn't seem to apply to my card:
PCIe Sub-System ID - Offset 0x08
Bits:15:0
Name:Sub System ID
Default: 0x0
By running the following command and eyeballing the offsets I've discovered that these are the two values on my Intel X520-DA2 card:
ethtool -e eth1 | less
"0x0320: 03 00 1f 00 00 00 00 2b 03 13 11 7a 86 80 a6 10"
So, if we start at offset 0x0320 you would count 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f for each pair of digits.
The values we need to change are 11 at 0x032a and 7a at 0x032b. We can remove the 0 to shorten to 0x32a and 0x32b
So, for an Intel X520-DA2 (8086:10fb), to set subsys ID of 0x000a we would run:
sudo ethtool -E eth1 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32a value 0x0a
sudo ethtool -E eth1 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32b value 0x00
sudo ethtool -E eth2 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32a value 0x0a
sudo ethtool -E eth2 magic 0x10fb8086 offset 0x32b value 0x00
In order to allow the ethtool to write to the EEPROM you need the magic value specific to your card, which is: 0x<device id><vendor id>
The command below will show these values:
lspci -nn -vvv | grep Ethernet
NOTE these are not the Subsystem values, they are the device and vendor IDs, in this case 10fb and 8086.
Here's a useful reference:
http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/8086
Reboot and done!
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I didn't recommend Intel cards with Smalltree drivers. I have issue with them - problems in virtual machines (I've tried VMWare, Parallels - same result) - some packets, coming from VM to real 10Gbe network, are arrived twice. This drops network speed to 1-3Mbps. AQN107 cards works like a charm.
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Installing and testing with success Chelsio N320E, working only one interface.
Drivers for Catalina Chelsio Network Driver v1.24.5b0.
Connected directly to freenas with the Mellanox Connectx-2 card.
Drivers for Catalina Chelsio Network Driver v1.24.5b0.
Connected directly to freenas with the Mellanox Connectx-2 card.
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