So my motherboard(Tyan S8236GM3NR) has two onboard NICs. The singular port NIC that is eth0 and the dual port NIC that has eth1 and eth2. In unraid, I have eth1 and eth2 set to an 802.3ad bond with bridging enabled and everything else left default. It seems to work fine, eth2 interface section shows it's part of bond1. I have LAGP enabled for those ports on my network switch(Dell PowerConnect 6224). Everything seems to have been connected and configured correctly, however, I still can't get any sort of connection, and upon restart, eth1 and eth2 are shutdown. eth0 on the other hand seems to be perfectly up and running. I have to go into the terminal and run

ifconfig eth1 up
ifconfig eth2 up
ifconfig eth0 down

every time. The port up button is always greyed out even when the array is stopped.

 

I'm trying to make bond1(eth1/eth2 bond) the default connection. eth0 is going to remain unplugged.

I also can't make changes to the routing table after I bring the ports back up.

 

 

 

Edited September 2, 20196 yr by Reetik2000

Unraid needs port eth0 as its management interface.

You can use "Interface Rules" to reassign interfaces, .e.g. swap eth2 and eth0 and use eth0/eth1 as bonded interface.

 

It's gonna be wierd for labeling since the default eth1 and eth2 ports are next to each other while default eth0 being off to the side but I'll try it. Still don't know what to do about eth1 being disabled on boot tho. 

Any labeling on the outside has no relation to the interface assignments done by Linux.

When referring to eth0, eth1, etc these are the Linux assignments and you can assign any physical port to it using Interface Rules.