AndrewXL

I got it working. Thanks everyone who helped!

Hi Jorge, Yes I am able to ping the IPv4 address I gave to the 2.5Gb NIC First 2 pings are to my NAS IP and the second 2 pings are to the NIC

I write to cache pool of SSDs

I just repurposed an old PC into a NAS and got unraid 7.0 up and running. I'm mainly using it for redundancy and working with photo/video editing on my macstudio, then moving it to the NAS to live and occasionally access. The NAS has 1Gb ethernet on the motherboard and I got a TP-link 2.5GbE NIC. On the Mac side I have the 10Gb ethernet that I want to use for wired Internet (my router sucks and the network is slow ,300Mpbs) and I have a thunderbolt-to-2.5Gb ethernet. I've attached a layout for two options I'm trying to establish, I'm fine with either but maybe the bottom one is easier? Anyways I very new and green to networking and I cannot get the 2.5Gb connection to work. I setup unraid with DHCP, it gave the address 192.168.0.22 When I got the NIC, I set eth0 (the 1Gb mobo connection) to static. Set the NIC interface (What I think is eth1) to static and gave it 192.168.11.22 Then on the Mac side, I see the 2.5 LAN but it wasn't connected. I gave it 192.169.11.20 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0 which should be the same right? It came up connected but I don't think there is any communication over the 2.5 wire. I don't know how to test to check but I tried to set up the first layout (no internet for NAS) and my Mac couldn't see it. I also started transferring 1 tb of photos to a share and timed the transfer and it was averaging 12Mb/s and got worse when I streamed videos (indicating it was transferring over the network). On one hand I'm glad I got the NAS running and repurposed an old gaming PC, but on the other I need to dump my 4tb of photos/videos and then start working from it. So I want to get this 2.5Gb connection up and running. Thanks,