possible bind FreeNAS replication on a specific port

[anchen]

Hi folks,

my setup,

1 x HP Microserver Gen 10 ( Primary FreeNAS, replication master), 2 x in-build NIC ports.

1 x HP Microserver Gen 7 ( the replication slave ), 1 x in-build NIC port.

Flat SOHO bz network with no switch, no vlan. Everything straight into my home router which is also an DHCP server.

I am wondering if there is a way that can manually bind the replication traffic on a specific nic port? e.g. if the traffic destination is my replication slave server IP, send the traffic to nic port 2, else keep all traffic on nic port 1.

my daily replication always use full 1Gbps port at average 940Mbps during the backup. so I am trying to avoid everything goes to the same interface which would impact people access files during the replication period as the port congested.

I understand that if i add one extra nic to gen7 server, which can then force the traffic on an new subnet (without going via router) etc, but i want to see if i can avoid that.

Thank you.

Andy

 

[garm]

I am wondering if there is a way that can manually bind the replication traffic on a specific nic

Yes..

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