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So my main focus and reason for doing this is because I am in the process of switching my office over where all servers and main workstation are on 10Gb connections.
And like anyone else that has looked into this for a Mac outside of the older tower Mac Pro, you really aren't going to get 10Gb under the $400-500 range.
I decided there had to be a way to make this work on my nMP for at least of half that price.
Fortunately I already had an Akitio Thunder2 PCIe box from when I tried eGPU's earlier last year.
https://www.amazon.com/Akitio-Thunder2-PCIe-Box-intended/dp/B00LTAUTHE/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1495049719&sr=1-1&keywords=akitio+thunder2
I then searched for a few 10Gb NIC's with Mac Drivers available.
I came across the SolarFlare SFN5122F

• Low power consumption: Less than 5 Watts
• Support up to 254 Virtual NICs
• Full 40 Gbps Bidirectional Line-rate Performance
• Low Latency
• Dual-Port SFP+

Now SolarFlare only lists 10.9 and older drivers on their site but I decided to take a chance with it regardless.
The prices vary on this card from sometimes $120-340 but I thought I could do better and took to eBay.
I found one for $46 shipped so I ordered it right away.
I received the 'package delivered' update at lunch today and got back to the office as soon as I could.
I was fingers crossed the entire time because I had previously ordered a few Mellanox ConnectX-2 cards and couldn't get them to work over Thunderbolt.
But the SolarFlare worked!
At first I just placed the NIC into the Thunder2, connected the Thunderbolt2 cable and power and just wanted to see if macOS would detect it without doing anything else. No joy.
I headed to the support website and downloaded the drivers
Solarflare OS X Driver Package [OS X 10.9 - Signed]
Installed the drivers and restarted the Mac and right after boot up it was there. 2 new Ethernet ports @ 10Gb
At the moment I just have it connected to a 10Gb switch and plan on getting the file servers switched to 10Gb this month when I get the time.
So outside of a speedtest and just trying a file transfer, which nothing went over Gigabit speed at the moment but I was just more so excited that I didn't have to drop $500 on a similar setup. This little project came in at $263.

The Thunder2 has a case to cover and protect the electronics I just didn't have it on today.