June 4, 20242 yr I recently purchased a low end server mainboard which I used as the heart of my NAS. The board supports four 2.5 Gb comms ports and initially the system ran with this set up. I then purchased a 10 Gb port to fit in the only PCI slot on the board but ran in to difficulties where the new port would not map in Unraid. I spent a lot of time searching this forum and the web for a solution, but the most sensible info I found was to disable the 2.5 Gb ports and just run om the 10 Gb. That seemed a good solution and I can transfer data much faster than before with the 10 Gb port. I now have an issue with a lack of 10 Gb ports on my switches and wondered if I could reactivate the 2.5 Gb ports so that they could provide network access for my tower allowing me to connect the 10 Gb port direct to my Mac Studio. That would allow the tower to link to my network even when my Mac is switched off and save the need for another 10 Gb switch port. What I really want to understand is how to reactivate my 2.5 Gb ports so that they work happily alongside my 10 Gb connection. I have appended my diagnostics if they help. Here's hoping for some good advice! tower-diagnostics-20240604-1010.zip
June 4, 20242 yr Community Expert There's no link detected on any of the 2.5GbE NICs, I assume you want to make one of those the main NIC (eth0)?
June 4, 20242 yr Author Thank you for the reply. No. I want to keep the 10Gb connected to my Mac and the 2.5 Gb ports available to the network for when my Mac is offline.
June 4, 20242 yr Author Yes. It's connected to a 10Gb port on a small switch and the second 10 Gb port on the switch connects to another small switch to which the array is connected via the second 10 Gb port. These switches have 2 10 Gb ports and 4 2.5 Gb ports. What I want to achieve is to free up two of these 10 Gb switch ports by connecting the Mac to the array directly rather than though the 2 switches. and to use the 4 spare array 2.5 Gb ports to connect to the network Note that the array is not local to the Mac hence the two switches.
June 4, 20242 yr Community Expert 56 minutes ago, Baregills said: What I want to achieve is to free up two of these 10 Gb switch ports by connecting the Mac to the array directly rather than though the 2 switches In that case the 10GbE NIC will no longer have internet, so it cannot remain as eth0, you will need to make one the other NICs eth0 and the 10GbE NIC eth1 for example, you can do that on the network settings page, a reboot is required, also note that both NICs should use IPs from a different subnet.
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