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Configure multiple IPs/interfaces on RND4000
Hi,
Is it possible to configure multiple IP addresses in a RND4000? I need to be able to connect the unit to two home networks, 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24.
Hardware-wise the unit has a single network connection but I could potentially use a USB-to-NIC to create a second on, or I could plug the single interface in to a simple hub that connects to both networks.
If I go the hub route then I need to be able to configure a second logical interface to the physical one and I cannot see how I could do that.
If there is a USB-to-NIC device that might work with this hardware then do you have any recommendations as to which one?
Or, lastly, is this just not possible?
Thnks for your time.
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Also look at e.g. the RN214 which is more powerful than the RN204. If you can get the RN214 for a good price that would be the way to go.
No. The CPU architecture, RAID format and filesystem are all different.
Would be best to get new disks for the new NAS and use backup jobs to copy your data across: How do I back up data from a RAIDiator 4 system to a ReadyNAS OS 6 system?
Then reverse the source and destination of the backup jobs to use the old NAS to backup the new.
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I don't think the NV+ includes USB-NIC drivers.
Connecting a hub to both networks is a bad idea, it will destabilize both networks (and won't solve your problem).
So connecting the NAS directly to both networks is not possible.
But there might be some other options depending on how you want to use the NAS, and how the two networks are arranged.
What services do you need on both networks? Are both routers sharing the same internet connection, (one behind the other), or are there two WAN connections? What routers do you have?
I use the NAS almost entirely as a network drive so want to be able to mount shares from the device to PCs and MACs.
The routers use different internet connections, II have two different broadband connections to my house, both of which are used by different machines yet both groups of machine want to access the shared drive.
The two routers are ones provided by the broadband vendors, so a BT Home Hub 5 and a Virgin Media SuperHub.
I am willing to consider purchasing a smart switch of some kind if needs be although currently I cannot envisage how adding VLANs in would help at all, unless the RND4000 can cope with VLAN configs.
Your NAS does allow you to set a VLAN tag, but I think it only supports one. Unfortunately the software manual doesn't describe the functionality. Perhaps mdgm-ntgr can give some more information. Newer NAS definitely have the feature you want (the RN102 has just one NIC, but does have vlan support. All the others have two NICs).
Though a smartswitch with VLAN support could make sense for you anyway, since VLANs would let you move devices from one network to another w/o rewiring.
Although I have marked mdgm's answer as the right solution there is another one that is possible and which works out considerably cheaper without breaking the networks, that is to connect those home computers that need access to the drive to both networks.
This can be done relatively easily although depending on the machine it might be 'fussy'.
If you have a desktop then you can add a second interface card, either wired or wireless, and connect that to the second home network. You will have to update your computer's network config so that one of the broadband connections is the default gateway but otherwise there should be no problems with the connectivity. Desktops can have multiple wired connections, multiple wireless ones or one of each type, about the only thing that won't work easily is havng a single wireless card since you cannot connect to both wireless connections at the same time (see below). Obviously you are going to need to be able to reach both hubs via cable or wifi signal and using wifi can make for slower file access.
With laptops and wireless devices it is unlikely that you will be able to add in a second interface, although not impossible depending on your hardware (I know for a fact that some laptops have built-in wifi cards and also PCMCIA slots that will take a second wifi interface). In this instance you will have to get used to switching between the two networks, or just using the one network that has the shared drive on it.
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