What is the benefit of Dual interface in a single host running unRAID?

[SHAHZAD KHAN]

What is the benefit of Dual interface in a single host running unRAID? I understand Link Aggregation. The host is running in a small home-lab.

[MrGrey]

None? (unless there's more or I missed something).

 

MrGrey.

[MAM59]

For a small lan with less than some dozen clients, it makes no sense at all.

 

There is a very theoretical benefit that it may help you if your dog bites through one of the cables (failover), but if you have a nice pet, again the benefit does not exist.

 

 

[tjb_altf4]

A common use case is adding a 10GbE NIC to your server and direct connecting to a desktop/workstation for fast access to your data, where the rest of your network would normally run 1GbE.

[primeval_god]

I assign different IP addresses to each interface and isolate one from the webui and use it for docker containers. 

[SHAHZAD KHAN]

On 1/19/2023 at 12:44 PM, primeval_god said:

I assign different IP addresses to each interface and isolate one from the webui and use it for docker containers. 

Agreed. You can bridge two interfaces and use second one with containers. The traffic is coming in using second interface but outgoing traffic is still using primary interface. Dual interface is not optimally used. Am i missing something here?

[primeval_god]

1 hour ago, SHAHZAD KHAN said:

Agreed. You can bridge two interfaces and use second one with containers. The traffic is coming in using second interface but outgoing traffic is still using primary interface. Dual interface is not optimally used. Am i missing something here?

I am not sure i understand what you mean by bridge. The containers are exposed through one interface and the unRAID UI through the other.