Sleepless In Seattle Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Hi guys, I am new to the diy NAS world. Forgive me if the question sounds very dumb I wanted to get 1G/s speed between my desktop and home server so I am planning to add 10gbe network card to both my home server and my desktop. But my problem is I do not have a 10gbe switch also I do not plan to put my server within the same room(too noisy). so I have to connect the home server to my 1gbe switch and let my desktop connect to my server directly through the pre-routed port on my wall to get the 10gbe ethernet. But that way I am losing connection to the internet . So I am wondering is there some kind of way that I can set up a "virtual switch" in my server like I did in my previous synology and qnap so I can get 10gbe ethernet and 1gbe internet using 1 single cable? Quote Link to comment
Sleepless In Seattle Posted November 19, 2022 Author Share Posted November 19, 2022 is 10gbe switch my only option here? Quote Link to comment
Shu Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Could you add a 10gbe network card to your server that has two ports? One going to your router/1gb switch then the other to your PC? Quote Link to comment
Sleepless In Seattle Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 14 hours ago, Shu said: Could you add a 10gbe network card to your server that has two ports? One going to your router/1gb switch then the other to your PC? Yeah that's exactly what I am gonna do.. on my server i have 2x 1GB ports and planning to add a 2x10gbe card to it. I guess my question is if i connect one of them to my PC and another to router/switch, will my PC get access to internet automatically? Or do i need to install a VM that runs openwrt/pfsense that does the job for me Quote Link to comment
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