Connect NAS to router as well as my pc in the same time

[Lazzie1990]

Hi guys,
Iam new to freenas so looking forward to find some help here.
Currently i have a freenas server setup from an older pc. I brought 2x intel x540 10gig NIC.
1 for the main rig 1 for the NAS. The network card has 2 connection. Here is how phisically they are connected at the moment:
Freenas server 1 cable to the route 1 cable to the main rig
Main rig 1 cable to the route 1 cable to the freenas server
What iam tryin to achive that both be connected to the internet via the router with 1 gig connection as my router can only do 1 gig.
And to echother 10gig connectuin so file transfer would be fast. Seems to be eveyrthing setup i oinged bot connection on my pc and it worked seems to be connected. On freenas gui set up as well but for somereason when i copy files from my pc to the server it goes trough the router via 1gig connection. How could i set it up that the 10 gig would be only used as connection between them but bot stays connected to the router in the same time. Thx.

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

You would have to enable routing in FreeNAS to do what you suggest, and that wouldn't really be a good idea. FreeNAS can have multiple NIC's, so that would probably be a better bet. It would mean that your PC would need two NIC's as well. One 10G storage network on a different IP network with static IP's and no gateway. The other network (static or dynamic) would be the one that connects to your router.

 

[Lazzie1990]

I understand, my mobo has a 1gig connection on the NAS. Would that work if i connect that to the rputer and the NIC to my main rig?

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

If you have two connections (1 storage/FreeNAS and 1 general purpose), that should work if you assign different IP networks to each connection. You would have to reference the FreeNAS by the storage IP to use that connection.

 

[Lazzie1990]

Ok so Nas side ill use the mobo lan for router and NIC to connect to main rig. But on my main rig i can also only ise the NIC to connect to my nas? And i woul have to use a 2nd NIC or wifi to connect to the router as on my main mobo lan is dead. Is that what you saying? Or the main rig side i can use the NIC for both connecting to NAS as well as router?

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

If you have a separate IP network for the storage side then you would need to change some routing in your router as well as FreeNAS. If you aren't a routing person, that is probably more than you want to try. I would say use some other NIC to connect to the router.

 

[Lazzie1990]

The main reason i started this project as iam starting to study for Cisco ccna and i thought it would be a good practice before i begin. So ill do the way you suggest it for now and will revisit it once iam a little bit more familiar with the routing part. Thx for the help.

 

[Lazzie1990]

One last question if i bound ip to certain processes would ill be able to do it that way? I know i manage to do that with 2 separate internet connection to my pc. 1 was bound to browser operation the other one was for games. I dont know if the premise would work with storage in this case.

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

The internet connection would have a default gateway, and the storage network would not. That is IMHO a huge mistake in the way windows presents networking. Default gateway is a system level parameter, NOT an interface level parameter.

 

[Lazzie1990]

Ohh ok got it. Thank you for all the help.

 

[Lazzie1990]

If you have two connections (1 storage/FreeNAS and 1 general purpose), that should work if you assign different IP networks to each connection. You would have to reference the FreeNAS by the storage IP to use that connection.

I sorted it, it wasnt that hard actually. All i did is i changed the ip from 192.168.1....to 192.168.2... on those ports that connect the nas and the pc. Left the other port automatic. Both is connected to the internet and if i copy something it goes trough the other port. I just remapped the drive in windows with the new ip. Done

 

[Lazzie1990]

10gig file transfer and also stable internet connection in the same time. No additional hardware needed to be purchased.

 

[Lazzie1990]

Which i just realized is exactly what you recomended...thank you