Totally confused on how to set this via the GUI.

 

I have 4 nics in my server. Ideally I would set 2 nics to one bond and another set to another bond. Both using LACP.

 

How do you define multiple bonds and even a single bond that uses a portion of the available nics?

 

Unraid sees all the nics:

 

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

06:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

06:00.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

06:00.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

 

Thanks!

-Jim

 

 

joining this thread, bondings or separate use of nics (and different ips, assignments to vms, etc.) is of big interest.

 

thx.

What use case do you have for dual bonds, just out of curiosity? I just got my rig set up with my two intel NIC's bonded, balance-rr, using the UI. All is working well, I pass all of my unRAID traffic through this, as currently 2gbps is enough for me in nearly all cases.

What use case do you have for dual bonds, just out of curiosity? I just got my rig set up with my two intel NIC's bonded, balance-rr, using the UI. All is working well, I pass all of my unRAID traffic through this, as currently 2gbps is enough for me in nearly all cases.

Probably no real use for 2 bonds but real use for only bonding 2 nics.  Other nics can pass through to a vm. There are real applications for nics being tied directly to the vm.  I have 4..might as well use them.

My MB (Tyan S5512GM4NR) has 4 nics.  I pass through 3 of them to VMs the 4th is for unRAIDs use.  I use the method described here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=38259.0 to pass them through.  Technically I'm only using 2 currently for the 2 Win7 32bit VMs on that unRAID server.

I see your point now, the webUI only allows bonding all or nothing, not selectively bonding.

 

However, why not bond them all, and utilize the internal bridging for dockers/VMs? This way you are not sending data out a NIC, across your network, and back in to the same box. Internal transfers would then not be limited by network speed.

Can you set different ip's (multihomed) for multiple NICs?

Ideally, i've been hoping for vlan support, but i'll settle for this in the meanwhile...

I am interested in dual bonding as well. I have a pair of onboard gigabit nics going to my lan and a pair of 10gbe that will go directly to an esxi server (SPF+) Each bond will have its own internet connection also. Is this possible in v6.2.1 ?