xzibit
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Hello everyone,
I'm having issues assigning addresses to my TrueNAS system with multiple NICs and I wanted to reach out for advice.
I have one onboard NIC, and five PCIE expansion NICS. Four are on one card, and one is alone on another. I want to assign a dedicated address for different apps & VMs that I'm running on various ports.
The issue I'm having is that TrueNAS does not allow multiple NICs from one host to be on the same subnet (well actually, I found a way to do it using DHCP on one and the other being static but issues arise.)
I've read all the posts on here that say something along the lines of "Why can't I can use two NICs on the same subnet?" with the same moderator responding mentioning the way unix systems do networking. To be completely honest, I'm a student and don't fully understand his explanation other than the bottom line seems to be that you need to put each interface on a different subnet. Very well, I do this and for some reason I cannot ping across subnets. I suspect this has to do with the use of "dumb" switches and a home router which may or may not even have subnetting functionality. Basically what I'm trying to get from someone on this forum is advice to see if there's some way I can get this to work without buying more equipment.
Attached is an image of a Cisco Packet Tracer file with my home network topology. If anything is unclear please ask.
I'm having issues assigning addresses to my TrueNAS system with multiple NICs and I wanted to reach out for advice.
I have one onboard NIC, and five PCIE expansion NICS. Four are on one card, and one is alone on another. I want to assign a dedicated address for different apps & VMs that I'm running on various ports.
The issue I'm having is that TrueNAS does not allow multiple NICs from one host to be on the same subnet (well actually, I found a way to do it using DHCP on one and the other being static but issues arise.)
I've read all the posts on here that say something along the lines of "Why can't I can use two NICs on the same subnet?" with the same moderator responding mentioning the way unix systems do networking. To be completely honest, I'm a student and don't fully understand his explanation other than the bottom line seems to be that you need to put each interface on a different subnet. Very well, I do this and for some reason I cannot ping across subnets. I suspect this has to do with the use of "dumb" switches and a home router which may or may not even have subnetting functionality. Basically what I'm trying to get from someone on this forum is advice to see if there's some way I can get this to work without buying more equipment.
Attached is an image of a Cisco Packet Tracer file with my home network topology. If anything is unclear please ask.
