March 2, 20251 yr My current server turned 9 years old last week (lol) and I decided to upgrade it to 10gbe. I bought a 2.5gbe switch with 2x 10gbe ports and purchased two intel based 10gbe cards (x540 x2, one for Desktop, the other for the server). It’s all installed, and I can see all interfaces in Settings > Network however they are offline. This build does have IPMI. How would you go about setting up the 10gbe network now? If I just run one Ethernet cable to the 10gb card, I lose IPMI, correct?. If I run two cables, how should I handle that from a DHCP perspective and what are the cons?
March 3, 20251 yr IPMI typically only can use onboard ports, and normally it has a dedicated port, which means you would run two cables. If the port is shared and you use two cables, then there is a chance some transfers will go over the slow connection, and some go over the fast one. You can set eth0 to the 10g one in unraid, which means it should use that as a default. As for DHCP, you shouldn't have to do or set anything for things to work (assuming there is a DHCP server on the network) since each port gets its own address.
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