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Daisychain the Pro 6
Hi everybody, The ReadyNAS Pro 6 has 2 ethernet ports on the back, and I would to use them in "pass-through" mode. Where I want to set it up, I only have one ethernet socket available, and I would...
Equinox wrote: A-ah! itsjasper.... if you band the two ethernet links, as you're suggesting, and connect them to the same switch, you will still have a 1gbps upload :-) And a mess on the buffers at the switch level ;)
Absolutely incorrect, you should read up on the different NIC bonding modes of the NAS.
(Of course without multiple clients you'd not crack 1gbps, and I assume your setup would be a single client?)
StephenB wrote: My advice is to ignore the extra ethernet connection on the RN104. The platform isn't capable of generating/consuming more than one 1 gpbs anyway, so bonding isn't worth the trouble.
OP and subject refers to the Pro 6, though his profile does indeed state RN104.
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