BlackHawk1942 Posted March 25, 2014 Share #1 Posted March 25, 2014 (edited) Hi there... First of all i want to say thank you to the community for such a great work. I am new around here and red a lot of topics of the last few days but there are still question. I tried to search my questions but especially "failover" was pointing to the french part of here and ... I mean ... It´s french I´m lost even with translator - most of the time. However, back to topic. After a few days of reading and surfing around I grabbed my GA-Z77N-WIFI and wanted to setup a NAS. The MB has two NICs (RealTek 8111). I red that the latest 4.3 by Trantor supports this kind of chip, but is the failover working (correctly)? I also want to try to install DSM 5.0 with Gnoboot. If I take a closer look at the driver table (http://www.gnoboot.me/p/blog-page_6.html) there is no Support for the RealTek 8111. Is it handled by one of these: RealTek RTL-8139C+ series 10/100 PCI Ethernet (8139cp) RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet (8139too) RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (r8169) ? I checked the RealTek HP and noticed that the driver for the 8168 is equal tp the 8111 but 8168 != 8169... Is it working on Gnoboot? There is a similar question in the german corner but still no answer. Thanks for any effort BlackHawk Edited March 25, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnoboot Posted March 25, 2014 Share #2 Posted March 25, 2014 Not sure if it's working, but I'm using 8168 driver from vendor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackHawk1942 Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted March 25, 2014 Ah, ok... If you are using the 8168 driver, why don´t you list it? I can find only the "RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (r8169)". The driver for this NIC is a bit diffrent because usually it is connected via PCIe while the 8168 is connected via PCI. Does this may make a difference? But if you are using this kind of driver, I would give it a try What about the failover? Are both NICs recognized by the System? Greetz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnoboot Posted March 25, 2014 Share #4 Posted March 25, 2014 Ah, ok... If you are using the 8168 driver, why don´t you list it? I can find only the "RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (r8169)". The driver for this NIC is a bit diffrent because usually it is connected via PCIe while the 8168 is connected via PCI. Does this may make a difference? But if you are using this kind of driver, I would give it a try What about the failover? Are both NICs recognized by the System? Greetz Updated the driver page in my blog. I don't think there's driver difference when using PCI vs PCIe. DSM is using Linux network bonding for NIC failover. Try it yourself or send me a network card for me to test;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackHawk1942 Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share #5 Posted March 25, 2014 I prefer first one My new HDDs are somewhere in the orbit, if I can trust my supplier. I'll test it. Thank you for the support By the way ... Great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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