I have searched and searched and I feel really stupid, so I'm tucking my tail and asking.
TLDR:
Why do I lose connection to the UnRaid webUI when I enable a bridge connection on a separate NIC?
Long Versioin:
I am running an older Dell R720 (circa 2014). Thing runs great and I have been running UnRaid very happily for quite awhile. Currently running 6.10.3
I'm wanting to start loading up some VMs to play around, so I thought I would bridge a couple NICs over for them.
My current setup is eth0 and eth1 bonded using 802.3ad (192.168.2.10). Working beautifully.
When I bridge over eth2 (192.168.100.10), I lose connection via the webUI at .2.10. I have to then connect using .100.10. Almost like the new bridge is taking over the host connection or something.
When looking through the help, I saw this:
"Select which interfaces are member of the bridged interface. By default eth0 is a member, while other interfaces are optional."
So my question is - because I'm bridging eth 2, does that "take over" the "main" connection (eth0 and eth1 because they are bonded) into UnRaid's webUI? And if so, should I take my bonded connection to eth2 and eth3 since they are optional bridges and set the VM bridges to eth0 and eth1? How does UnRaid know which connection to use?
This is a little out of my comfort zone, so hopefully this is enough info for someone to provide me guidance. If I'm missing anything, please let me know.
I appreciate the help in advance all!