Adding 2.5gb network cards

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Iv bought some 2.5gb network cards , to try and increase the transfer speed form me PC to NAS
adding one of the 2.5gb cards to the pc is straight forward , however adding the other the NAS has changed the IP address and nothing will connect ( drives )
is it possible to add the new network card and keep the same old IP address as before ?

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Of course. Either manually configure the new card to have the old address, or configure your router to issue the old address to the new card.

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Thanks ,
all this new to me , how would one go about adding the old address on the NAS ?

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You’d follow the documentation to configure the new network interface. The link is at the top-right of the page.

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  • Connect Monitor or via IPMI
  • Chose option 1
  • Assign the old IP to the new NIC
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Thanks guy’s , will have a read through and see what’s what
:slight_smile:

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Well thats gone tits up !!!
Tried adding the card
Couldn’t get it to work ,
Managed to get old ip working, and noticed plex wasnt working,

So i thought loading the default configuration would revert the settings i had , ( number 5 from the gui )
only to find its completely wiped everything!!!
:exploding_head::exploding_head:
Managed to import the pool
but thats all is there ( no plex app settings).

Is there a way to find all the plex settings i had !! ?

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Do u have snapshots ?

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No ,
How i go about doing this ,

Managed to get everything up and running again :grin:

I was shitting bricks an hour ago, though i lost all my data !!

But all is well again lol

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Dont worry, happens to the best of us.
Updated the BIOS today and it messed alot things up aswell :sweat_smile:

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Seriously, what made you think that? Resetting the config to defaults resets all the configuration to defaults–users, shares, apps, everything.

Upload a saved copy of the config database that you wiped out.

They won’t help if a user’s wiped the config database as OP did.

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Lucky it wasn’t encrypted.

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Going to give this an other try

After adding card , it gives me an other IP addresse with the 2.5gb card which is fine ,
What im stuck at is plex , how do i configured plex with the new ip address ?