Network Bonding

[joecool169]

I have 1 onboard network port, and 2 on a 10gbit Broadcom card. Bonding was enabled on eth0. I disabled bonding "because I didn't think I needed it, and unraid lost network connectivity and said a cable was unplugged. So, reboot--no dice, set back to bonded -no dice, reboot - -no dice. deleted network.cfg and network-rules.cfg and all is back to normal. Except my connections are still bonded.

 

[joecool169]

bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500
 eth0: interface down
 eth1: interface down
 eth2: 10000 Mbps, full duplex, mtu 1500

 

Is this the reason I could not figure this out?

I thought eth0 was the nic I was using but unraid is using eth2?

[Kreavan]

I did this very same thing yesterday.  I fixed it by booting into GUI mode.  Once there, brought up the web interface.  Go to Network Settings and on the "Bridging members of br0", add the unchecked.  Reboot and it should work.

[joecool169]

Right, but that leaves the connection bonded. Is bonded the default setting? How do I get them not bonded? Or should they be?

[bonienl]

By default Unraid uses bonding of the interfaces.

 

If you want to use your 10G interface as main interface, you'll need to do two steps

 

1. Under network settings disable bonding

2. Under Interface Rules set your 10G interface as eth0

 

Because you are going to interrupt the connection, easiest way to do this, is with a locally attached monitor + keyboard/mouse and boot in GUI mode.

Edited April 17, 2020 by bonienl

[joecool169]

Thank you very much. Where I was going wrong was not picking the MAC address in the interface rules. I thought because I picked the mac address that my router showed in it's history that I was picking the right one. But the MAC address in the routers history was the MAC for the onboard lan that I have never plugged a cable into. So to recap, I turned bonding off, picked the right MAC address in interface rules and rebooted. I then had to re setup my reservation and port forwards in my router and all is good.

 

So the point of all of this was that I wanted to try out pfsense. With my current setup I could now right? Plug modem into onboard or other 10gbe port and switch stays plugged into current port?