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ReadyNas 2 pro ethernet pasthrough
HI all,
I was trying to configure my readynas to make the second ethernet port on it to passthrough traffic to my home router as all of my router ports are occupied. I wanted to connect an old NAS to it so i could transfer all the data easily. Is this a possible thing?
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MegaBlindy wrote:
HI all,
I was trying to configure my readynas to make the second ethernet port on it to passthrough traffic to my home router as all of my router ports are occupied. I wanted to connect an old NAS to it so i could transfer all the data easily. Is this a possible thing?
I don't think you can set it up as passthrough (at least I know of no one here who has done that successfully).
It's simpler to just connect the second NAS to your router or connect both to an inexpensive switch - and there is no performance penalty for doing that.
You can connect the NASes directly together if you first set each with a static IP for the port that will be connected to the other. I recommend they not be in the same subnet as your network. The old NAS will not be accessible via your network nor have access to it, but you can use a backup job from one to the other. But with a 5-port switch being quite cheap, that's the better approach.
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