ROCK Dual Ethernet - Primary Port Not Exposed [RESOLVED]

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I do not endorse this setup because I’m not confident it will have a positive benefit on SQ, but here is the proper way to do what you want:

  1. plug your NUC into the router via ethernet and just make that all work properly with DHCP – get everything working with NUC/ROCK/Roon the everything normal.

  2. plug your ethernet adapter into the NUC, and connect that via an ethernet cable directly to the device you’d like to isolate (usually a network audio renderer).

  3. on the NUC’s second ethernet, setup static IP set like this:
    ip: 5.1.1.1
    netmask: 255.255.255.0
    gateway: nothing
    dns: nothing

  4. on the isolated device (the audio renderer), setup static IP like this:
    ip: 5.1.1.2
    netmask: 255.255.255.0
    gateway: nothing
    dns: nothing

This setup is better than the br0 setup because you aren’t actually linking the 2 networks – in fact, your renderer can’t even talk to the internet in the above setup, nor can it talk to your iPad, or anything else on the network EXCEPT RoonServer on the NUC. Complete IP traffic isolation.

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