What is the point of having Dual Gigabit Ethernet Ports on the MacPro? Haven't full understood that yet. Do they work off each other and double the speed on things? Or is it just for if you had an external hard drive or something?
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Dual Gigabit Ethernet Ports.
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webserver or Xsan/Xserve
We use the dual ethernet for video production network with Xsan and Xserve. Number 1 is for metadata to the dedicated xserve network. Number 2 is to connect to our building network and get the interwebs....
You could also use it for a webserver.
We use the dual ethernet for video production network with Xsan and Xserve. Number 1 is for metadata to the dedicated xserve network. Number 2 is to connect to our building network and get the interwebs....
You could also use it for a webserver.
Two networks. Having the Mac Pro as a gateway machine. There are lots of different things that could use two ethernet ports.
They Can Be Used For MultiProcessing Compression Work Among Macs On LAN
You have to buy at least an 8 Port Managed Hub with Link Aggregation from Netgear for $130 or 16 Ports or 24 Ports and you hook all the dual Ethernet Macs into that to share Qmaster dedicated cores among all of them for super fast rendering and compression of video.
I need someone to help me learn how to do that. I can't even get ONE Mac to run Qmaster correctly so far. Anyone here care to help me please PM me off line. Thanks.
You have to buy at least an 8 Port Managed Hub with Link Aggregation from Netgear for $130 or 16 Ports or 24 Ports and you hook all the dual Ethernet Macs into that to share Qmaster dedicated cores among all of them for super fast rendering and compression of video.
I need someone to help me learn how to do that. I can't even get ONE Mac to run Qmaster correctly so far. Anyone here care to help me please PM me off line. Thanks.
This is what most folks use dual ethernet for. One for the "light" network, which handles email and web traffic and what-not, then another for the "heavy" network, be it an Xsan server or regular backups or whatever else.
The idea is that one can be saturated all the time w/out hurting productivity.
You can also use it to create a LAN between two machines. I used to do this to fast network my laptop to my Mac Pro, both of which are gigabit and should offer fast data access between machines. Sadly, the transfer rates are slower than 802.11g and I can't figure out why! So, I just wirelessly network them.
Did you check your cable? How long is it? Is it coiled? Running near any power cables or fluorescent light fixtures?
I a Windows box server connected via a crossover CAT6 cable and I get about 70MB/sec....direct connection. Something must be wrong with your setup.
Try putting the subnets on different ones for each connection. I have also used the network while using AirPort without problems.
Sounds like you may be doing something wrong.
As someone said, use a different subnet. For my computer-computer network, I use 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 for the computers. My wireless router hands out 192.168.x.x IPs. So I can make sure that if I connect to 10.0.0.2, it will go over the 100mbit connection (my pee cee doesn't have gigabit) rather than the wireless network. If both networks have 192.168 IPs, then you might be going over wireless rather than wired. Different ranges help remove any ambiguity.
Hey All - Thanks for the replies. I'm using a brand new Cat-6 cable (backwards compatible to Cat5/5e). The cable has a clean run from the Mac Pro to my Powerbook. The wireless network uses 10.0.##.## and the wired network uses 192.168.##.##. I'm not sure where to change that (Airport Admin Utility for wireless, but for wired?), but it seems consistent with the suggestions.
To test the speed I'm simply using scp and large file. Is there a better test?
Other suggestions? Others ways to troubleshoot?
Try without using scp (which encrypts/decrypts) the file. Turn the wireless network off, mount the powerbook, and then just either drag a file to the powerbook or cp <filename> /Volumes/<pbook-mount-point>/wherever. The latter won't give you the fancy 0-100% completion bar that scp does nor the speed, but maybe there is an option for that?
The reason I was using scp is that it was faster than Finder! Are there any tools for measuring network speed between two computers?