I have dual nic on my server. I want to use one nic for all my downloading containers like torrents etc, then use the other nic for everything else.

 

Is this possible, and if so how to I configure it?

 

I have a managed switch if I have to create a vlan for it to work.

I had this thought and it's not even necessary. Just use any of the binhex VPN torrent clients (binhex-delugeVPN, etc). Configure your VPN to use with it. If it ever loses VPN connection the docker has a killswitch and will instantly stop. 

That`s not the reason. I am using Hotio`s images for my containers, so wireguard works perfectly.

 

I want the torrent`s containers on a separate nic so I dont have to share bandwidth on my local network when using plex locally or while transferring backups to and from my server etc.

 

By using separate nics all torrent traffic will go directly to my firewall/router and not interfere whit any other activity on my local network.

In the network settings of Unraid configure this interface (eth1) to use the bridge function (br1) and do NOT assign any IP addresses to the interface. You can chose to use IPv4 only or IPv4 and IPv6.

 

Under Docker settings you need to uncheck br0 as interface for custom networks and select interface br1 instead.

Configure br1 with the same subnet as used previously with br0. Make sure you select a DHCP pool which does not overlap with the DHCP pool of your router.

 

When configuring your docker containers, select custom network br1 as network. Docker containers may have either a dynamically allocated IP address (DHCP) or a fixed IP address.

 

The above allows your docker containers to use a separate NIC from your Unraid management connection.

 

2 hours ago, bonienl said:

do NOT assign any IP addresses to the interface.

How do you prevent the interface from acquiring an IP address? I recently did this to setup a VLAN but couldn’t stop my pfsense router from assigning an IP to the interface.

I think he means don’t assign from unraid.  It will acquire from DHCP server

5 minutes ago, Ystebad said:

I think he means don’t assign from unraid.  It will acquire from DHCP server

Maybe. I was hoping there was a way to stop the server management from using that IP. IE when you browse to that IP you don’t connect to the login screen.

33 minutes ago, wgstarks said:

Maybe. I was hoping there was a way to stop the server management from using that IP. IE when you browse to that IP you don’t connect to the login screen.

Actually, I think I found it. Settings>ethernet under the VLAN section the address assignment has 3 options. Automatic, static and none. Don’t know how I missed that. 🤦‍♂️