February 18, 20179 yr I am working on adding a second NIC to my current Unraid test for work/personal. I installed the new NIC (TF-3200 by tp-link), but the OS didn't recognize it and allow a driver to be grabbed. However, when i check lscpi -nnk it shows up there without any drivers loaded. Am I needing to load the driver manually or??? If you could let me know where to start heading to allow teaming please let me know. The build is going to eventually have a dedicated nic added for 1 of the virtual machines/or docker apps and a teaming setup for the file share section for the office/personal use.
February 18, 20179 yr The TP-Link TF-3200 is a fast Ethernet card (i.e. 100 Mb/s). You're wasting your time trying to make it work. Throw it away and get a gigabit card instead.
February 18, 20179 yr Author I understand that this is only a 10/100 card, and that is what I have laying around for testing I currently have 2 gigabit cards coming in Tuesday. However that still does not help answer what is needed to enable/use the 2nd and 3rd NICs in Unraid.
February 18, 20179 yr What NICs are the ones you've ordered? If they are supported they will just work when you install them. If they are unsupported you won't be able to use them. You can configure them via the Settings -> Network Settings page. If you want to team them you need to enable bonding and choose the appropriate mode, depending on your requirements and whether your switch supports link aggregation, then configure it to use either a static address or DHCP. If you want to use one individually you need to exclude it from the bond, then you can configure it independently, either with a static address or DHCP. Turn on Help in the GUI for more information. EDIT: Added more detail.
February 18, 20179 yr Author TG-3269, which I have used on a few linux builds in the past (debian based when I have used them).
February 18, 20179 yr The Realtek chip is supported but it isn't the best choice. Since they are PCI cards you won't gain much in terms of speed by teaming them so I guess you're doing it for fault tolerance. That's bonding mode 1.
February 18, 20179 yr Author I am going to be dedicating 1 to the new cards to vms and 1 to bond with the onboard gigabit nic for the file server. However if the realtek chip is supported why can't i use the current 10/100 that is installed? the driver isn't loading for it.
February 18, 20179 yr I am going to be dedicating 1 to the new cards to vms and 1 to bond with the onboard gigabit nic for the file server. PCI bus bandwidth is 32 bits x 33 MHz = 1.056 Gb/s, which is shared between all devices plugged into the bus. However if the realtek chip is supported why can't i use the current 10/100 that is installed? the driver isn't loading for it. Which Realtek chip does that card use? It won't be the same as the one the gigabit card uses.
February 18, 20179 yr I suspect you need to re-think this. Abandon the 100 Mb/s card - it isn't supported. You can just about get away with using one PCI gigabit card, but leave the other PCI slot(s) empty. If you need a third NIC then make it a PCIe one. What motherboard are you using?
February 18, 20179 yr Author This is currently a test. Hence why I am mainly using what I have around at this time. I understand the limitations of PCI channels and etc... I am trying to get the test working, if the test doesn't work than I am moving away from Unraid. The test build is running on a HP Z600 Dual xeon quad cores and 24GB ram. How is the 100mb/s card not supported (used them in other Linux machines to get them back online for customers), what compatibility list do i need to look at for supported network cards etc. I will have a single pcie slot when it is all said and done to use with the networking with the other devices on the machine.
February 18, 20179 yr Unraid is a custom built slackware that extracts from the USB into RAM and runs completely in RAM. Only popular and specifically requested drivers are loaded to save space (USB and RAM). An older 10/100 card with a seldom seen chipset isn't a good candidate for unraid. There is no compatibility list maintained that I am aware of, but if you have a gigabit or 10gig card that isn't already included you wish to have added, unraid's developers are typically quick to add support.
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