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.
you would use the nmtui command from an SSH terminal logged in as root.
configure interfaces → ipv4_configuration ,change automatic to shared, press enter then select the far right column and configure a static ip. Do this for both interfaces.
This will set up link aggregation if the switch or router supports it. Otherwise it will load balance.
Just remember, you need to set two static ip address outside your local network’s dhcp pool. One per Ethernet interface.
thanks for sharing. the screenshots looks like from a bios setting of a zima cube. i dont have one but i have found simmilar ? config options within zima os.
looks like this one has zero configuration ?
So if i go to the menues and change DHCP to Manuel and set static ip ports it should work ?
currently its only traffic at one
you connect to the computer the zimaOS is running on by SSH and log in as root with your password.
its on the operating system side that configure the network ports like that which you connect by SSH from a terminal program after enabling the SSH in Settings → general → developer mode
BTW, I’m running ZimaOS on a generic N200 mini computer I bought from Amazon.
Its using the default setup in the OS, but for those advanced configurations with dual ports are going to set up better logging into the SSH terminal side instead of the web gui as the web GUI doesn’t always reflect what is going on in the hardware side of the machine.