jgreco
Resident Grinch
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It's a Netgear GSM7352Sv2 it definitely has 2 10Gb uplinks which are being used. As mentioned the speeds I was getting were between 1.0Gbps and 1.01Gbps one way and 1.3Gbps in the other direction, so they aren't linked at 1Gbps. I'm currently working on setting up a direct connect between the FreeNAS server and Windows workstation on a separate subnet to see if problem persists.
I'm a college student, so I have no experience with networking outside of what I do at home. So obvious procedural tasks for you may be unknown to me. I bought the necessary components, I hooked them up. I didn't see what I expected so I made a post here.
How do I direct connect? I set the 10gig nics up on a separate subnet (192.168.10.1 /30) and windows (192.168.10.2/30) and I can't get a ping to go through. I'm sure there's some networking 101 I'm missing here.
Edit: Never mind. Didn't set the gateway properly.
You definitely don't need a gateway to connect the two things together - there wouldn't even be a gateway in that case and it isn't clear what you think "properly" would be. You should just be able to "ping 192.168.10.2" from 192.168.10.1 and vice versa and it should work, and just to be sure you're doing it right, disconnect any other connections from the two devices you're connecting together to guarantee that traffic can only flow over that one path.
The "almost exactly 1Gbps" thing is a really big red flag that there's either a 1G link in the path or that maybe there's something asymmetric in the network, such as maybe misconfigured IP networking causing one direction to traverse through 1Gbps networking. Windows is particularly annoying because it has firewalling considerations.