Hello!

 

I've run into an issue that has gotten the better of me, and am posting a bounty to whomever provides the piece of advice that enables me to fix it. Hopefully this is allowed on the forums!

 

What I'm trying to accomplish is to have John, my Unraid server, use the 2.5Gbe PCIE adaptor to communicate with the 2.5Gbe PCIE adaptor in my Windows 11 PC. The make and model of both adaptors is TP-link TX201

 

The 1GBe adaptor built into John's motherboard seems to work fine by itself, although not straight out of the box as you'll see in the video

 

Both 2.5Gbe cards work in the Windows 11 PC when connected to my network switch, which leads me to think that it is not a hardware issue

 

I've deleted the network.cfg and network-rules.cfg files many times as I've tried different iterations of what I have read on here and on Reddit

 

Really hope that one of you knows what is going on here :')

 

About the £25 bounty - DM me and I'll zap you the dough via PayPal \m/

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Edited December 6, 20232 yr by Jogeta316
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No bounty needed 🙂

 

Your fault is that you did not deactivate the 1G adapter or at least make him eth1. Also "bonding" is a killer and "active backup" means: only one card is used the other one kicks in only if the first fails.

 

So there is a lot to clean up, but very simple too:

 

1) change Network adapter settings, make the 2,5G card "eth0" (the 1G will chance to "eth1" at the same time)

2) disable bonding

3) enable bridging (for dockers and so on) but member is only eth0!!!

 

This should make things running (no cable needed for the 1G card, pull it out!!!)

 

MAM59 - thank you so much!!

 

I used your wisdom as a starting point and managed to get things working!

1. Unplug and disable motherboard's built in 1Gbe card on the PC
2. Set the IP4 settings on the 2.5Gbe adaptor on PC to "Obtain automatically" for both IP and DNS
3. Set the 1Gbe port on John (Unraid server) to eth0 and the 2.5Gbe card to eth1
4. On the Interface eth0 settings in Unraid I turned off bonding but enabled bridging
5. Both eth0 and eth1 are set to be members of "br0"
6. Waited a few moments for my router to assign IP addresses and DNS to Unraid, and then everything came to life!!

This will help immeasurably when it comes to archiving important family events. I have virtually no photos of my late mother and father, so getting this working properly was super important to me!

 

Please DM me so I can zap over your reward
If you're not comfortable using it yourself then please pass it along to someone in need or in your family

As I said, no reward needed.

If you really want to spend some money, give it to a charity organisation. Pick one yourself (NOT your local pub 🙂 )

 

btw, you command sequence does NOT follow my orders. You dont need both cards (they work now because they are bridged, but there is no benefit and there is also a 50% chance that a connection picks the wrong one randomly)

 

a) Just set 2.5G to eth0 and disable the 1G, then you are done (I assume your network switch is capable to handle 2.5G ???)

 

b) Or, if the switch is NOT capable, stay with this setup (1G of Unraid to switch, 2.5G of Unraid directly into PC, bridging for eth0 and eth1). You will have a fast(er) connection to UNRAID, it will forward packets from your PC to "others". The drawback is that if UNRAID is turned off, your PC has no network access at all.

 

a) is prefered and with those cheap 2.5G switches around I would strongly go for it.