Skip the switch

[Bigjoe35]

Hey, first post here so sorry for anything... I have 2 high end gaming PC's and 1 is also basically a home nas. I am using some ssd's on raid 0 and one is a x570 board with a 3800x and I have a 1 tb of nvme gen 4 with about 5 gigbit read and writes. So my question has anyone ever tryed to just hook each pc up cat 7 for mabe 3-5 meters with one of these (HPE-IMSourcing NC523SFP 10Gb 2-port Server Adapter.  ) https://www.google.com/shopping/product/3345462993557822039?q=Gigabit+Ethernet&client=ms-android-verizon&biw=412&bih=766&tbs=vw:l,ss:44&prmd=sniv&sxsrf=ALeKk00IdEWzHflQrurDSjzCgEXXGsV6bw:1583140635379&prds=epd:16676720510529304461,paur:ClkAsKraXwl2p0bKgfGK1TBtsZ5pY2BpgiNPVlao_30By7IkOB7ZywzMd-Y3GimsHqIJJoQjjaArz1OZNHRcFs-VuSdCSwl8GYHkWHPg3RJToi0eembbTxyRoRIZAFPVH72P79hq8cYoD9dhPeR99ovk1V57mQ,cdl:1,prmr:1,cs:1 l 

 

So as you see there's 2 port if I used 1 for just pc to pc and the 2nd just for internet also both have built in 1gigabit and I have 1 gigabit internet from my ISP. But would that remove the need for a 10gig switch for only the 2 computers?

[Windows7ge]

So you're asking if you can make a Peer-to-Peer connection between these two computers at 10Gbit correct?

[Bigjoe35]

Yes but only for like a shared folder. 

[Bigjoe35]

@Windows7ge

[Windows7ge]

If both machines have a 10Gbit NIC you can connect a cable directly between the two. They may receive IP addresses automatically but if not you can make a network for them so long as it's a different subnet to the home network.

 

So what OS's are both boxes running?

[Bigjoe35]

Just win 10 pro, so if I leave my regular network with my isp how I have it with 192.168.x.x and made a new sub net like 10.10.10.xx and statically made each ip like 10.10.10.01 for sys A and 10.10.10.02 for sys b and the then change there default gateway to the others static ip? 

@Windows7ge thanks for the help!.

[Windows7ge]

12 minutes ago, Bigjoe35 said:

Just win 10 pro, so if I leave my regular network with my isp how I have it with 192.168.x.x and made a new sub net like 10.10.10.xx and statically made each ip like 10.10.10.01 for sys A and 10.10.10.02 for sys b and the then change there default gateway to the others static ip? 

@Windows7ge thanks for the help!.

For a peer-to-peer network like this you don't have to designate a Default Gateway but yes assigning the IP's can be done in that fashion.

 

My own preference:

Network:   10.0.0.0/30
NIC 1:     10.0.0.1/30
NIC 2:     10.0.0.2/30
Broadcast: 10.0.0.3/30

This would work to enable the two to communicate directly with one another.

[Bigjoe35]

Easy thanks for the help @Windows7ge I'll give it a try when the nics get in.

 

[Robchil]

if it is between 2 win10 installations, you should get a 169.192 adress with a /128 mask anyway. so you should be able to see eachother. but it's better to dedicate ip's just be sure you only have 1 gateway in your config on your primary card. not the 10gb nic. 

 

on a note, we used to do this when 1GB came along, but had to use a cross connect cable, but most switches and nic's should detect this by themselves today, but if you do not get a connect on the cards, that might be a thing to try too.