I'm currently thinking about upgrading the link from my Photo&Video Workstation to my FreeNAS system to 10G Ethernet. To safe 800€ worth of Ethernet Switch I was thinking about leaving the 1GbE LAN setup untouched and bridge the interfaces on my Workstation and FreeNAS maschine with 10G cards and connect them point-to-point. Like this:
bridge 10G and 1GbE together
Code (text):
- .--workstation--------. .---FreeNAS-----------.
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