Freenas Network Connection Problem

[hbsterling]

My first time installing Freenas and after loading, it says "The web interface could not be accessed." I checked and my router is set up for DCHP. How I can fix this issue?

[LIGISTX]

9 minutes ago, hbsterling said:

My first time installing Freenas and after loading, it says "The web interface could not be accessed." I checked and my router is set up for DCHP. How I can fix this issue?

Where did it say that? That sounds like something your browser would be telling you, not the monitor plugged into your Freenas box... The freenas "head" looks like this

:

That is my FreeNas "monitor". I run it in a VM under ESXi, that show I pulled a screenshot of it.

 

What is your FreeNAS IP address? Your putting that into your browser, (use HTTPS, not sure why mine even has an http option.... going to have to disable that, didn't used to be enabled, very strange) and getting that error?

[hbsterling]

2 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Where did it say that? That sounds like something your browser would be telling you, not the monitor plugged into your Freenas box... The freenas "head" looks like this:

That is my FreeNas "monitor". I run it in a VM under ESXi, that show I pulled a screenshot of it.

 

What is your FreeNAS IP address? Your putting that into your browser, (use HTTPS, not sure why mine even has an http option.... going to have to disable that, didn't used to be enabled, very strange) and getting that error?

After Freenas loads it does not show an ip address, after 11) shutdown it says the web interface cannot be accessed. I checked all the connections and restarted but no luck.

[hbsterling]

4 minutes ago, hbsterling said:

After Freenas loads it does not show an ip address, after 11) shutdown it says the web interface cannot be accessed. I checked all the connections and restarted but no luck.

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, hbsterling said:

After Freenas loads it does not show an ip address, after 11) shutdown it says the web interface cannot be accessed. I checked all the connections and restarted but no luck.

Ah. What motherboard are you using? Its possible it doesn't have a driver for the NIC your mobo has... I am personally now sure how you would go about adding a custom driver either. You could try and go into configure network interfaces and see what shows up? I assume nothing will though...

 

If you can't get it working on the NIC built into your mobo, a Intel 2 plug gigabit PCIe card is pretty cheap:

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-INTEL-PRO-1000-PT-QUAD-PORT-PCIe-GIGABIT-NIC-HBA-SERVER-ADAPTER-CARD-39Y6138/142107635897?_trkparms=aid%3D1110012%26algo%3DSPLICE.SOIPOST%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225086%26meid%3Dae7865e72ca74512b49a2f4e3803fe24%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D132894233850%26itm%3D142107635897%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DPromotedSellersOtherItemsV2%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

 

Well thats an uugly URL lol. But any Intel NIC would work.

[hbsterling]

1 minute ago, LIGISTX said:

Ah. What motherboard are you using? Its possible it doesn't have a driver for the NIC your mobo has... I am personally now sure how you would go about adding a custom driver either. You could try and go into configure network interfaces and see what shows up? I assume nothing will though...

 

If you can't get it working on the NIC built into your mobo, a Intel 2 plug gigabit PCIe card is pretty cheap:

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-INTEL-PRO-1000-PT-QUAD-PORT-PCIe-GIGABIT-NIC-HBA-SERVER-ADAPTER-CARD-39Y6138/142107635897?_trkparms=aid%3D1110012%26algo%3DSPLICE.SOIPOST%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225086%26meid%3Dae7865e72ca74512b49a2f4e3803fe24%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D132894233850%26itm%3D142107635897%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DPromotedSellersOtherItemsV2%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

 

Well thats an uugly URL lol. But any Intel NIC would work.

I am using an asrock h470m-itx/ac. If it is not compatible what other OS would you recommend to use?

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, hbsterling said:

I am using an asrock h470m-itx/ac. If it is not compatible what other OS would you recommend to use?

Looks like your NIC is Dragon RTL8125BG... whatever that is. Its a realtech chip, which is almost certainly the issue.

 

What is your intended purpose? Hard to recommend a file server OS with no info...

 

But with that said, I am not sure what others would have a driver for that either. You may end up having to get a PCIe NIC regardless, or go forum searching for how to load a driver. Although, I bet most responses will be "just get an Intel NIC, there is a reason they are the standard for gigabit networking".

[hbsterling]

1 minute ago, LIGISTX said:

Looks like your NIC is Dragon RTL8125BG... whatever that is. Its a realtech chip, which is almost certainly the issue.

 

What is your intended purpose? Hard to recommend a file server OS with no info...

 

But with that said, I am not sure what others would have a driver for that either. You may end up having to get a PCIe NIC regardless, or go forum searching for how to load a driver. Although, I bet most responses will be "just get an Intel NIC, there is a reason they are the standard for gigabit networking".

I am just using it for a Plex server

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, hbsterling said:

I am just using it for a Plex server

What hardware, as far as storage. If its literally just a plex server, you could just run Windows.... 

[hbsterling]

1 minute ago, LIGISTX said:

What hardware, as far as storage. If its literally just a plex server, you could just run Windows.... 

3 Segate 6tb drives, I might just have to run windows then

[LIGISTX]

Just now, hbsterling said:

3 Segate 6tb drives, I might just have to run windows then

With only 3 drives, FreeNAS is sort of a lot of work for no real "point". Are you planning on running some version of RAID? All you can do with that is RAID 5 ( I mean, you could RAID 0.... but like, don't). You would try unraid as your OS, it *may* have support for that NIC.

 

But again, these OS's are really geared more towards a more "advanced" user. Its not easy to add drives to freenas, although it is easier to add to unraid (as unraid doesn't use standard RAID, thus its name).

[hbsterling]

27 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

With only 3 drives, FreeNAS is sort of a lot of work for no real "point". Are you planning on running some version of RAID? All you can do with that is RAID 5 ( I mean, you could RAID 0.... but like, don't). You would try unraid as your OS, it *may* have support for that NIC.

 

But again, these OS's are really geared more towards a more "advanced" user. Its not easy to add drives to freenas, although it is easier to add to unraid (as unraid doesn't use standard RAID, thus its name).

Yeah I was going to run raid 5

[LIGISTX]

2 hours ago, hbsterling said:

Yeah I was going to run raid 5

I assume the mobo has RAID 5 support in hardware, or could get a little boot SSD for cheap, run windows on that (you would need a boot device separate from the 6TB drives for any of these options anyways) and set up, uh, i forget what its called but windows has a way to do it.

 

Just, remember. RAID 5 "is dead". But, since its low importance data like movies and tv shows, its fine.

 

 

Basically, statistically speaking you likely will run into a flipped bit as you rebuild an array that only has single redundancy since our drives today are so large... Also, you run the risk of a second drive failing during the rebuild. Obviously, these are low risk and low impact for your use case. If a bit is flipped, likely nothing will matter since its a video file. And the chance of a second drive failing isn't very high in the realm of all possible things that can happen.

 

But this is why I run RAID Z2 (ZFS equivalent of RAID 6).

[paddy-stone]

On 7/9/2020 at 9:30 PM, hbsterling said:

I am using an asrock h470m-itx/ac. If it is not compatible what other OS would you recommend to use?

Have you got the LAN cable plugged into the intel gigabit LAN? rather than the 2.5G dragon port?

[hbsterling]

2 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

Have you got the LAN cable plugged into the intel gigabit LAN? rather than the 2.5G dragon port?

I tried both, I decided to switch to Windows

[Jarsky]

1 hour ago, hbsterling said:

I tried both, I decided to switch to Windows

You didn't consider Linux, being the next closest to FreeNAS?

It supports ZFS (ZoL / ZFSonLinux), if you don't mind using the command line, at least for configuring the array. 

 

There is a ZFS Manager for Cockpit as well which gives you a GUI https://github.com/optimans/cockpit-zfs-manager 

I haven't tried it since early Alpha which had a lot of problems but its had a few updates since then so might be worth trying out