So I was recently gifted some Mellanox 40gig network cards that I installed in my NAS and my desktop and connected with AOC fiber. I gave them both static IP addresses on their own dedicated subnet that’s not used anywhere else in my network. I was able to run iperf3 between both computers, and that worked exactly as expected....
you need to look at the routing tables on your computer. these tables store the prioritized rules for how packets leave your host machine.
it might be that something is adding rules, or, there is some overly broad rule taking priority (like a rule that says all 10.0.0.0/8 traffic go to your home router over 192.168.69.0/24, etc)
it’s also suspect that you can reach the NAS over the 1gb card. That to me means one of two things:
something is not actually using the IP you’ve configured in your fstab and is using some IP that is on the 1gb interface
you have some weird network routes configured that is leading to this issue. if 10.42.69.0/24 is accessible over the 192.168.69.0/24 network, then you might need to create a static route explicitly telling your OS to send packets out the 40gb card
ultimately, i suggest you run something like tcpdump or wireshark on your computer (ideally on the NAS too) so you can start to visualize how the packets are being addressed and transferred over your networks.
Can't figure out why my computer defaults to the 1gig lan, rather than 40gig for connection to nas
So I was recently gifted some Mellanox 40gig network cards that I installed in my NAS and my desktop and connected with AOC fiber. I gave them both static IP addresses on their own dedicated subnet that’s not used anywhere else in my network. I was able to run iperf3 between both computers, and that worked exactly as expected....