RESOLVED - A question about networking and if this will work

[Zebraitis]

Hi folks,

You may have seen my other post about getting a 5810.

This post is about taking advantage of the 10GB NIC in the 5810...  and I could use some guidance.

My existing home infrastructure is 1GB based (which is fine in getting video content to various screens).  And with my former TS5800 running a backup was uncomplicated but took a LONG time at times (when a full new backup of my windows server was needed --- about 4 days).

Right now my Win11 home server has an ip address of x.x.15.14 and my 5800 had an address of x.x.15.30

I'm planning to buy a 10GB NIC add-on card for my server and connect that directly (without switch) to the new 5810.

So, I know that I will need to ensure that the NICs connected to that crossover cable are a completely different IP range.

I will still want to connect to the Windows box remotely (via remote desktop) and I would like to connect top the 5810 NAS via a mapped drive and the Nas Navigator web app in that x.x.15.x range

HOWEVER, when running a backup (I use SyncBackFree), I would like the win box and 5810 to talk directly to each other via that 10GB link and ignore the other NIC and not put that traffic on the home network.

How do I do that?

Thanks, and I look forward to your suggestions.

[Zebraitis]

I had received a reply earlier to this question, and the answer that was given was make sure to address devices by IP Address rather than by computer name or mapped drive letter.

In short that did work well.

I was able to keep the traffic on the 10GB ethernet cable between computer and TS5810.

Observation in using the 10GB port on the TS5810 and the Intel 10GB NIC:  While I was hoping to get greater speeds, the SATA drives receiving and writing data seemed to be the speed bottleneck.  The speed of transfer about an average 2GB over that CAT8 cable.  While I was hoping for greater this was still twice as fast as the old TS5800 and GB network.