HRX Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 (edited) Dear Experts out there, I seek your advise if it is possible to setup unraid with a pfsense vm on the following hardware: i3-4160 Asrock Rack E3C226D2I Dual NIC 16GB ECC Ram There are many online tutorials online that is based on a Quad NIC setup and nothing on Dual NIC(Onboard). It would be great if someone and provide some guidance on setting up the Dual NIC passthrough and be able to access the unraid web interface after. Thank you in advanced. Edited April 24, 2020 by HRX Quote Link to comment
toastman Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Are you referring to passing through the 2 ports on the motherboard, or do you have an additional dual-port NIC to pass through? Quote Link to comment
HRX Posted April 25, 2020 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 Yes I am referring to the 2 ports on the motherboard. There is not additional dual nic. Quote Link to comment
Carbongrip Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) Hello, Well firstly, if you passthrough both nics on that motherboard you wouldn't be able to access Unraid over the network. Your third nic is a IPMI management port and can't be used for Unraid network access. Second, I would need to see what your IOMMU Groups look like to tell you if both Intel® i210 nics are able to be passed through. The nics would both need to be in their own separate IOMMU Groups. Third, you could technically passthrough both nics and use a USB 3.0 to Gigabit ethernet adapter to give Unraid something to still access the network. Hope this helps you. Cheers! Edited April 26, 2020 by Carbongrip Quote Link to comment
HRX Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 Thank you for your reply. Just seeking some clarification on point 3. Do you mean that if I were to use a use nic for unraid, I would have to connect it physically to a switch that is connected to the lan port of the pfsense? Thank you. Quote Link to comment
Carbongrip Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 18 minutes ago, HRX said: Thank you for your reply. Just seeking some clarification on point 3. Do you mean that if I were to use a use nic for unraid, I would have to connect it physically to a switch that is connected to the lan port of the pfsense? Thank you. Yes, the USB lan port would need to connect to a switch connected to lan port of pfsense. It might help you to see it if you draw it out on paper. Also ask around which USB NICs work in Unraid, some may use an incompatible controller. Cheers! Quote Link to comment
HRX Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 Got it, I will buy a cheap quad nic pcie card. Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment
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