Hi folks !
I've encounter very, very highly concerning behavior on my network using shared folder on freeNAS (wich basically "shutdown" my entire network), here it is :
First of all, very new user to freeNAS, newbie for linux-related things.
I've installed this night freeNAS on a laptop (Asus N76VZ, i7 3630QM, 16Go ram, freeNAS installed on usb stick, 1x250Go SSD, 1x1Tb HDD), just for give it a shot (and found Jails very interesting, i'm also new when it come to "real" virtualisation operations)
I've created one pool on each disk, one volume on each disk, create users, give permissions, etc, mapping network drive on primary windows machine, everything went very fine, no problem encounter and if so, simple research on forums solved all my problems.
I've tried to copy movie library from a Synology DS214 (200Gb size, not that much files) onto the HDD shared folder for testing Plex on the Asus laptop, and the simpliest way i've think of for doing this was to mount the smb shared folder of the freeNAS into the FE of the synology, again, everything went just fine, then I just use File Station on the Syno to start copying films to the freeNAS, and some seconds after the beginning of the copy, basically my whole network was shut down.
Any regular computer ethernet-plugged cannot access internet anymore, or network equipment (including router, Syno NAS, freeNAS, shared folder on other computer), my main workstation even do not detect wired connection anymore (really just like if I physically unplugged network card), WIFI device cannot access internet and shared folder anymore (including Ipad, 3 Phones, 2 laptops, one on live-Ubuntu, other on win10), Internet Access Provider's router having every LED except power on plain red, and didn't log what happens in his journal once it returned to normal.
Once freeNAS machine shutdown, everything return to normal in seconds, tested again beginning copy 3 times, every times exactly same behavior occur.
I obviously immediatly disconnect and uninstall freeNAS machine (to go test some xpenology solution for fun, went just fine about everything), I rely on my machines to live (obviously not in network managment haha) and cannot obviously have a machine on my network that can having such an impact on everything.
I will give another shot to freeNAS in the future, seems very cool, but for now, don't have more time to invest in freeNAS (I really just need 2 shared folders, maybe one Plex just for trying, and a sync solution from only some minor folders on my workstation for now), I just wanted to let you guys know about this issue, even if I don't have much time to try another install right now, I will read the answers to this post and giving all the information I can for helping the discussion (find this topic and general freeNAS and freeBSD, jails,network things etc very interesting)
Sorry for bad english, not a native speaker.
Edit : I don't think it's related to network saturation, freeNAS machine was plug on 1Gb ethernet, windows machines same, Syno NAS on 100Mb ethernet (and it have only HDD in simple volume that canno't saturate my network haha)
I've encounter very, very highly concerning behavior on my network using shared folder on freeNAS (wich basically "shutdown" my entire network), here it is :
First of all, very new user to freeNAS, newbie for linux-related things.
I've installed this night freeNAS on a laptop (Asus N76VZ, i7 3630QM, 16Go ram, freeNAS installed on usb stick, 1x250Go SSD, 1x1Tb HDD), just for give it a shot (and found Jails very interesting, i'm also new when it come to "real" virtualisation operations)
I've created one pool on each disk, one volume on each disk, create users, give permissions, etc, mapping network drive on primary windows machine, everything went very fine, no problem encounter and if so, simple research on forums solved all my problems.
I've tried to copy movie library from a Synology DS214 (200Gb size, not that much files) onto the HDD shared folder for testing Plex on the Asus laptop, and the simpliest way i've think of for doing this was to mount the smb shared folder of the freeNAS into the FE of the synology, again, everything went just fine, then I just use File Station on the Syno to start copying films to the freeNAS, and some seconds after the beginning of the copy, basically my whole network was shut down.
Any regular computer ethernet-plugged cannot access internet anymore, or network equipment (including router, Syno NAS, freeNAS, shared folder on other computer), my main workstation even do not detect wired connection anymore (really just like if I physically unplugged network card), WIFI device cannot access internet and shared folder anymore (including Ipad, 3 Phones, 2 laptops, one on live-Ubuntu, other on win10), Internet Access Provider's router having every LED except power on plain red, and didn't log what happens in his journal once it returned to normal.
Once freeNAS machine shutdown, everything return to normal in seconds, tested again beginning copy 3 times, every times exactly same behavior occur.
I obviously immediatly disconnect and uninstall freeNAS machine (to go test some xpenology solution for fun, went just fine about everything), I rely on my machines to live (obviously not in network managment haha) and cannot obviously have a machine on my network that can having such an impact on everything.
I will give another shot to freeNAS in the future, seems very cool, but for now, don't have more time to invest in freeNAS (I really just need 2 shared folders, maybe one Plex just for trying, and a sync solution from only some minor folders on my workstation for now), I just wanted to let you guys know about this issue, even if I don't have much time to try another install right now, I will read the answers to this post and giving all the information I can for helping the discussion (find this topic and general freeNAS and freeBSD, jails,network things etc very interesting)
Sorry for bad english, not a native speaker.
Edit : I don't think it's related to network saturation, freeNAS machine was plug on 1Gb ethernet, windows machines same, Syno NAS on 100Mb ethernet (and it have only HDD in simple volume that canno't saturate my network haha)
