Can I use NIC Teaming on the TS 563?

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nintendo1889
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Can I use NIC Teaming on the TS 563?

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Can I do nic teaming (LAG or LACP) with the builtin ethernet and a NIC installed in the PCI-E slot? If not, is there a switch failover?

Or is it just a placeholder for future hardware designs?
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Re: Can I use NIC Teaming on the TS 563?

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nintendo1889 wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 12:24 am Can I do nic teaming (LAG or LACP) with the builtin ethernet and a NIC installed in the PCI-E slot?
Probably.

I can at least do NIC teaming (Qnap call it Port Trunking though) between a builtin NIC and a supported NIC in a PCIe slot on a different Qnap model. Failover, different static link aggregation modes and LACP are supported. I didn't have time to test that it worked but it could be configured and I have no reason to believe that it wouldn't work as I have never had issues with it.

You already have 2 onboard NICs and you can of course use them together as well.
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Re: Can I use NIC Teaming on the TS 563?

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P3R wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 5:03 pm
nintendo1889 wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 12:24 am Can I do nic teaming (LAG or LACP) with the builtin ethernet and a NIC installed in the PCI-E slot?
Probably.

I can at least do NIC teaming (Qnap call it Port Trunking though) between a builtin NIC and a supported NIC in a PCIe slot on a different Qnap model. Failover, different static link aggregation modes and LACP are supported. I didn't have time to test that it worked but it could be configured and I have no reason to believe that it wouldn't work as I have never had issues with it.

You already have 2 onboard NICs and you can of course use them together as well.
I didn't even realize that our ts-563 already has two ethernet ports! It was installed by someone else. :lol:
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