i have a diy nas using zima os pro. the used miotherboard has two 1gb ethernet prots. both are connected to the same switch. if i copy data within the networt to the zima nas i have recognused thet zima sees the two ports but if i loot at the usage only one ethernet port has traffic the other one is idle?
How to configurate zima that both ethernet ports are used ?
It depends what you wish to do with these two ports: usually a dual lan configuration is used for redundancy, meaning if one fails, the server is still reachable through the second.
A second case scenario would be segmentation, say if your want to have one lan for development and another for production (private/public)… Not a bad idea to keep these two separated. In this case you can also decide to dedicate one lan specifically for video streaming, for example, and the second one for all your other, less demanding, services.
A third option is load balancing, in order to improve performance and reliability, which is, from what I understand, the one you wish to achieve, but for that you need a router that supports this feature.