Hello Everyone. 

I'm a brand new user to unraid and am playing with the trial version and test hardrive before setting up my final box.

I have an MSI B460M mother board with 2.5Gb realtech LAN.

I added a 4 ports HP nics via PCIe.

 

I want to setup Opensense as a VM using 2 of the ports on the quad port pcie card.

I therefore tried understanding (using this pretty complete forum here) how this works.

After several trial and errors (including having to shutdown > delete config/network.cfg > start) I came upon this which puzzles me. 
Could you please explain to me if this is normal and me juste beeing ignorant, or if there's something actually problematic ?

 

In settings > network, I see the following sections and values (trunkated for readability)

Interface  eth0

MAC : 2C:F0:5D:AE:55:20

Bonding: Yes (active-backup) with members : eth0,1,2 and 3

Bridging: Yes

Config : Ipv4 - DHCP

 

interface eth1 (same config for eth2 - eth3)

Member of bond0 (see eth0)

MAC : 2C:F0:5D:AE:55:20 (same as eth0)

 

Interface eth4

 

MAC : AC:16:2D:9C:32:6B

Bonding : No

Bridging : yes

 

And then next section is : Interface Rules

 

Interface eth0: 2C:F0:5D:AE:55:20      PCI device 0x10ec:0x8125 (r8169)

Interface eth1:  AC:16:2D:9C:32:68      PCI device 0x8086:0x150e (igb)

Interface eth2: AC:16:2D:9C:32:69      PCI device 0x8086:0x150e (igb)

Interface eth3: AC:16:2D:9C:32:6A      PCI device 0x8086:0x150e (igb)

Interface eth4: AC:16:2D:9C:32:6B     PCI device 0x8086:0x150e (igb)

 

Question :

I don't understand how on the first page of the page, the eth0 as mac adress different  from the the last section...

Do eth0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4  refere to logical network interface (if terminology is correct) i mean ports or do they refere to some logical naming of the ports ?

Also, How can i change my config to access the webGUI via the 2.5Gb port (mac is 2C:F0...) and be able to also "isolate" my other physical ports so that I can pass them to VMs. (I don't necesseraly need passethrough unless it's required for security reasons or any other good reason.

 

THanks a lot and have a good day.

 

PS : (EDIT) - anytime I try to set turn off bonding on eth0, I loose connection to the server... (explaning the need to delete the usb network config file). I can't understand why....

 

Edited January 27, 20233 yr by DrKamp

If you want to use the NICs for different things you must disable bonding, and it will show the MAC for each one.

Thanks. 

I went with the Bridging to a BRx network for 2 of those nics. 
I used those 2 BRx networks in my VM config.

Seems to work pretty well.

It might not be th ebest solution in terms of security... But it's a problem for later...