Will TP-Link TG-3468 Network Interface Card work on TrueNAS Scale

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Hello,

I am new to the TrueNAS forum, so please do let me know if this is in the wrong category.

I want to run TrueNAS as a Virtual Machine on Proxmox, I am going to passthrough the disks and network card for the best performance.

I am going to use the onboard network port on the motherboard for the Proxmox management interface, and passthrough a PCIe NIC for TrueNAS. I currently don’t have any PCIE NIC’s, so I will need to purchase one. I am thinking of getting the TP-Link TG-3468. I have done some research on it and it would appear that it can work on Linux, but it might need some drivers to be installed.

My question is, will the TP-Link TG-3468 work on TrueNAS Scale, people say to get it working on Linux you may need to install some packages using apt, but TrueNAS doesn’t allow you to run apt commands? Would it be possible to get it working on TrueNAS, my only though on how to do this would be to enable access to apt commands, although there might be a better way?

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Do not do this. Pass through the controller instead.

That’s a giant red flag.

For Gigabit NICs on TrueNAS, go Intel.

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I am running TrueNAS on a Dell Optiplex 5050, do you know if it possible to passthrough the controller, I aren’t using a PCIE SATA expansion card. I currently only have one 3tb WD Red disk.

Would it be possible to get the TP-Link NIC to work, I have only just got started with TrueNAS, and I don’t want to spend a lot of money. The Intel NIC’s are a lot more expensive than the TP-Link ones.

Unless do you think one of these used Intel NIC’s would work ( Pardon our interruption... or Pardon our interruption...)

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Just use a virtual NIC for Truenas. At 1Gbit speeds you wont feel a difference. 1 HDD can saturate that link.

If its necessary and/or a good idea to virtualise Truenas, is another matter.

If you can passthrough the sata controller on that optiplex depends on the fact if the controller is in a seperate IOMMU group.

Proxmox will show you the groups in the pci devices dropdown menu.

But you should look at your project as a experiment. I would not put any important data on in without having a 100% backup.

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Thank you, I had read that passing through the NIC would give better performance, but I think that is probably only case on faster connections and using SSD’s.

I have a backup of all my data elsewhere, so if something does go wrong it’s not a problem.

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In the future if I wanted to passthrough a NIC, would any of the Intel ones work out of the box without needing additional drivers? For example the Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter 893647 Network Card EXPI9301CTBLK 10 (Pardon our interruption...)

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I think they both work.
But again the question is if you manage to pass them through on that non-server board.

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Thank you, I think I have seen some people manage to get it working on the Optiplex 5050, I will have to do some more research though.