Can not get network inside Jails on fresh 11.2-U4.1 install

[mowzer]

Hi all,

So I have just finished setting up my server and am virtualizing FreeNAS on ESXi with SATA passthrough. I know that it is not always advisable to virtualize FreeNAS but with my new server (SM X10SDV-6c board) I plan on virtualizing many other things, including a Windows lab which I have read FreeNAS does not handle Windows VMs very well. So ESXi is the baremetal route I have gone.

Anyway - FreeNAS itself appears to be working fine however earlier I tried to install the Plex plugin and at first it failed to fetch the 11.2-RELEASE, so I manually did this on the CLI and then it failing with some DNS issues. After some forum and Google searching it seems a lot of people had this issue. After trying some of the solutions (static IP, DHCP, changing the vnet_default_interface) I could still not get it to work. At this point I decided to just try and create a new jail and see if this had any issues.

Again, no luck. When using DHCP, the jail does not even start. When setting a static address (on all the available interfaces) the jail starts but there is NIC available inside the jail, ifconfig only shows the loopback.

Also when searching for issues around no networking inside jails and plugins failing to install it seems A LOT of people are having issues with 11.2 so while it is possible the issue is relating to my virtualized setup, I currently think its more likely to be an issue in FreeNAS and hopefully I can resolve this here.

Has anyone managed to solve this issue below? Any help is greatly appreciated. I will post my system and network info below.

FreeNAS provisioned hardware:

Code:

CPU: 4
RAM: 16GB ECC
Storage: 4 * 4TB disks in Z1 with SATA controller passthrough
Network: ESXi vSwitch connected to an Intel NIC

Ifconfig output:

Code:

vmx0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=60039b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        ether 00:0c:29:9b:71:c5
        hwaddr 00:0c:29:9b:71:c5
        inet 192.168.1.155 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        groups: lo
bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 02:1f:b8:c5:88:00
        nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
        groups: bridge
        id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
        maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
        root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
        member: vmx0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 2000

 

[joeschmuck]

This will be a shot in the dark but do you have Promiscuous Mode turned on in ESXi?