I just upgraded to unRAID 6.2 and have successfully got VLAN's working with my setup...much thanks for adding that feature by the way. 

 

I currently have 1x onboard NIC and a Dual Port Ethernet PCIe card.  In the webGUI bonding is only available for the onboard NIC and when enabled allows me to choose from the other 2 add-on ports.  I'd like to bond the 2 onboard NIC's to each other but it doesn't seem like that's an option.  Do I have to configure this through the commandline or am I missing something.  I saw someone else on the forums ask about something similar but he got no answer.  Hoping someone can shed some light.

I just upgraded to unRAID 6.2 and have successfully got VLAN's working with my setup...much thanks for adding that feature by the way. 

 

I currently have 1x onboard NIC and a Dual Port Ethernet PCIe card.  In the webGUI bonding is only available for the onboard NIC and when enabled allows me to choose from the other 2 add-on ports.  I'd like to bond the 2 onboard NIC's to each other but it doesn't seem like that's an option.  Do I have to configure this through the commandline or am I missing something.  I saw someone else on the forums ask about something similar but he got no answer.  Hoping someone can shed some light.

 

You need to assign eth0 to one of the interfaces on your add-on card. See settings -> network configuration -> interface rules to do that.

 

After the new assignment reboot your system and you can create a bond interface with your new eth0 interface and any of the other interfaces present.

 

Don't forget to move cables as your interface assignments have changed now.

 

 

bonienl,

 

    I had a question about this bonding part. First what is the need for it? Does it allow for load balancing? I currently have a 10/100 NIC that is on-board but I want to put a 1000 NIC in on the PCI-E x1 slot but I have found 1 to 4 port cards and was curious if doing this would help speed up connections to the system if you are using it for mainly media like Plex. I am trying to get an understanding why this feature is there and how I am use it to improve the system.

 

Thanks ahead....

 

Greg

There are several bonding modes. Some provide redundancy, some provide load balancing. Some need a managed switch that provides the necessary support. See here for the various options.

 

Mode 1 (active-backup) is a safe mode that offers redundancy.

 

Mode 4 (802.3ad dynamic link aggregation) is the most sophisticated mode, offering both redundancy and load balancing, but it needs support from the switch.

 

I've had success with mode 6 (adaptive load balancing), which doesn't need switch support. It doesn't deliver more than one Ethernet link's worth of bandwidth to any one client but it can balance the load to multiple simultaneous clients. It also offers a degree of redundancy but if you lose a link some packets are lost because it takes a measurable time for the link loss to be noticed.