Direct fibre connection to a FreeNAS server. Will it work?

Hardware Hub Networking
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I’m in the middle of putting together a NAS and was thinking of adding a 4 port qlogic 4Gbs card to the system and a single port card to each machine. Is this doable?

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yep.

you just invert the tx and rx on one side - so the tx goes to the rx, and vice versa.

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Definitely doable! And if you buy smart a cheap option too. For the networking side of thins make sure that you set a static IP on both the interface settings on the FreeNAS and the computer. And do not enter a gateway to prevent the connection be used for other traffic than PC -> NAS and NAS -> PC.

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Thanks for the help fella's.

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I'm pretty sure he's talking about 4Gb HBAs, not NICs. Short google search told me that there is no native FC target support but it's doable after a bit of manual tweaking and fiddling.

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Ah, that's indeed a different story!