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oldNASuser
Mar 03, 2026Aspirant
Anyone got SMB multichannel working on OS6?
Hi, I have old Ultra 4 Plus with OS6 6.10.8 connected on both 1Gbit ports to 2.5Gbit network switch (no teaming or bond configuration , just two separate adapters with two IP). PC is using a single ...
Sandshark
Mar 04, 2026Sensei
The Ultra4Plus does have two separate Marvell 88E8057 NIC controllers, so should be capable of multichannel (some ReadyNAS have a single dual-channel NIC) as long as the kernel supports it. Have you used ethtool to see if RSS is enabled and try to enable it if it's not? Even though standard Debian Jessie does have that capability, Netgear may have used an older Marvel driver that doesn't support RSS.
oldNASuser
Mar 04, 2026Aspirant
It seems that this Marvel driver does not support setting channels:
>>ethtool -l eth0
Channel parameters for eth0:
Cannot get device channel parameters
: Operation not supported
>>ethtool -i eth0
driver: sk98lin
version: 10.93.3.3 (03)
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: 0000:01:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no
Can I update drivers without re-installing whole Debian linux?
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