Error message for IP address after hardware upgrade

[avalon60]

I have just upgraded my NAS box with a supermicro board and 16GB of ECC kingston ram.
After I finished making all the connections, I switched on after plugging in a monitor to see what was happening as FreeNAS 9.2.1.6 booted up.

All seemed to go well untill it went through the process of getting an IP address, and finally come up with a new one, from what it was previously. Everything works ok, but when I do log in to the FreeNAS GUI there is a flashing Alert with an error message saying:
WARNING: The WebGUI Address could not bind to 192.168.0.13; using wildcard.

That was the old IP address, and now has a new one.
Can anything be done to either assign the old IP address back again or if not just to stop the Alert icon giving the said error message .

 

[DrKK]

Under System->Settings->General,

look at WebGUI IPv4 address.

Change it to the correct (new) one. It should (?) be a choice on the drop down list. If it's not, you can change it to 0.0.0.0, and that should be a reasonable solution.

You see what happened, your router, between the time your FreeNAS was down and up, looks like it had a use for the old IP address, and so, reassigned it apparently to something else. Accordingly, the router gave your FreeNAS a new IP address when it came up. You could have prevented this in the future by going into your router's advanced configuration, and setting the DHCP lease on the FreeNAS connection as "static", but the exact way of doing that varies widely depending on the router.

 

[avalon60]

In the WebGUI lookingat the ipv4 address it was set at 0.0.0.0, then a drop down box to show 192.168.0.28

A couple of other q's here now:
Should it be left at 0.0.0.0 or changed to the new IP address
Should I go into my routers config page and change the IP address back to the old one.

 

[DrKK]

No, there's nothing magical about the new IP address.

I would: go into the FreeNAS GUI and set it for the new address (apparently 192.168.0.28, right?), take it off 0.0.0.0.

Then, I would either do nothing at the router, or, if you know what you're doing, go into the router and make the 192.168.0.28 address a permanent one, so that in the future, you won't have to go through this again. In order to figure out how to do that, you'll have to figure out how to make a "static DHCP lease" in the router. While not "advanced" networking-fu, it's still more than about 95% of users will know how to do.

So personally, I'd suggest just changing the GUI to reflect the new address in FreeNAS, and leaving everything else alone, and if this comes up again, now you know how to fix it.

 

[avalon60]

Ok, what I have done is to delete the non changeable old IP address which was reserved for FreeNAS, then I set the new IP address in Freenas, rebooted and now don't get the flashing error icon about the old IP address.

Sorted, thanks