fireb1adex Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Hi - so I was looking into how to upgrade to 10GbE Lan, and the PCIE cards seem cheap but switches dont! Does anyone know if I can drop in a 2 port 10GbE card and serve a direct connection to each of my 2 client machines, while using the current 1GbE lan interface to serve up the rest of the network? Unraid would have to passthrough wan access by bridging the ports 3 ways - I am probably asking too much but I only need a decent connection to 2 machines on my network. Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 (edited) 8 minutes ago, fireb1adex said: Hi - so I was looking into how to upgrade to 10GbE Lan, and the PCIE cards seem cheap but switches dont! Does anyone know if I can drop in a 2 port 10GbE card and serve a direct connection to each of my 2 client machines, while using the current 1GbE lan interface to serve up the rest of the network? Unraid would have to passthrough wan access by bridging the ports 3 ways - I am probably asking too much but I only need a decent connection to 2 machines on my network. I have installed a 2 port mellanox card in my unraid server and one in each of 2 PC's and created a peer to peer network without a switch works great! Edited June 5, 2018 by mrbilky Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Yes, you can, and you don't need to bridge the networks, just use different IP segments for both. Quote Link to comment
fireb1adex Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 Awesome, I guess there's just the issue that both machines internet will go down if there was an issue with the UNRAID machine, but at that stage that will be the least of my worries! Though I guess i could always fall back to the normal LAN if this was the case. Thanks for the reply guys! Quote Link to comment
fireb1adex Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 On researching this further, it looks like the way to set this up is to continue to use your regular 1gb LAN connections for the internet etc, and supplement this with a direct peer to peer 10Gbe connection to file servers etc, giving a level of failover. Cards are pretty cheap right now so i'll give it a go! Quote Link to comment
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