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Re: Ethernet Ports / RN104

tec-man
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Ethernet Ports / RN104

The NAS has 2 ethernet ports on the rear.  Unfortunately there is little documentation on them.  My question is can a second port be daisy chained to another NAS, in other words is there effectively a 2 port switch in the NAS ?

 

Paul

Model: RN104|ReadyNAS 100 Series 4- Bay
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schumaku
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Re: Ethernet Ports / RN104

Documented usage is for connecting the NAS to the network, to two networks, or not the most useful one on these low-power devices in a LAG config for redundancy or additional bandwidth.

 

ReadyNAS is far away from the features offered by the big NAS players - when I think about the Virtual Switch capabilites we have on QNAP 8-/ ...

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StephenB
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Re: Ethernet Ports / RN104


@tec-man wrote:

 in other words is there effectively a 2 port switch in the NAS ?

 


As @schumaku says, no.

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