ReadyNas 4200 V2 - Additional NIC for out-of-band management
Dear all,
I know the subject has been discussed many times, but I haven't been able to find a 100% suitable answer:
I have a RN 4200 V2 (two PCIe-Slots (one x8, one x16) and one PCI-Slot) that is fitted with the RN3200's dual-Port GBit-NIC, bringing it up to a total of 4 GBIT NICs. Due to Bandwidth requirements (and not wanting to go for 10GE at this time), I would like to use the four available NICs for iSCSI on a separate Subnet and have an additional NIC available for out-of-band management.
I have been reading very often that the 4200 has only one Slot for an Add-on card; which does not apply to my V2.
Has anybody tried this as of yet? If somehow the Hardware is restricting itself to using only one card and disables the other two slots, would a USB-Ethernet adapter (such as D-LINK DUB-E100) work for this? As I said, this should be management (Web-IF and SSH) only.
Re: ReadyNas 4200 V2 - Additional NIC for out-of-band manage
FrontView was never designed to handle more than four NICs. You can try adding one, but the GUI may go weird on you. Should be able to set it up via console/shell if anything though. You would have to modify /etc/network/interfaces, duplicate one of the other lines to give eth4 dhcp/static setup.
The v1 and v2 are different motherboards, so PCIe slots are most likely a different setup.
If you stick with an Intel chipset, it should detect out of the box. Using other chipsets or USB, you will need to compile kernel drivers. I added a USB NIC long ago once for fun/testing, you can see what I did here: viewtopic.php?p=176647#p176647
