SOLVED Impossible to configure static IP without DHCP server?

[AMiGAmann]

Hello,

I just installed TrueNAS SCALE in a network without a DHCP server. Therefore I cannot access the GUI with a browser.

It seems to be impossible to configure a static IP address in that case.

When choosing "1 - Configure network interface" I am able to disable the DHCP client but I am not able to configure a static IP address.

Am I missing something? This is so elemental that I am sure I am missing something...

Best regards,
AMiGAmann

 

[morganL]

Are you using a keyboard and terminal screen?
Without IP, you need a direct connection.

 

[NickF]

The dialogue box is confusing, it threw me for a loop the first time too.

The configuration setting you are looking for is called "Alias" and is listed under the DHCP check box in the menu. You select that and a new window opens where you can give it an ip.

 

[AMiGAmann]

Are you using a keyboard and terminal screen?

I am using IPMI/BMC to control the terminal.

The configuration setting you are looking for is called "Alias" and is listed under the DHCP check box in the menu.

Oh man, that is what I was looking for over and over again, thank you!! Why is it labeled "Alias"?!

This should be really added to the manual IMHO. I studied that page over and over again:

Using the Console Setup Menu

Provides information on using the Console setup menu after installing TrueNAS SCALE from the iso file to configure network settings.

www.truenas.com

The paragraph "Configuring Network Settings" should really contain the sentence that a static IP can be configured with "Alias".

Thanks!

Best regards,
AMiGAmann

 

[NickF]

I am using IPMI/BMC to control the terminal.


Oh man, that is what I was looking for over and over again, thank you!! Why is it labeled "Alias"?!

This should be really added to the manual IMHO. I studied that page over and over again:

Using the Console Setup Menu

Provides information on using the Console setup menu after installing TrueNAS SCALE from the iso file to configure network settings.

www.truenas.com

The paragraph "Configuring Network Settings" should really contain the sentence that a static IP can be configured with "Alias".

Thanks!

Best regards,
AMiGAmann

Technically in Linux, because you have the ability to set multiple IP addresses on a single interface (or VLANs on an interface, or bonds [also called LAGs or Port Channels] on an interface, or vlans on bonds....etc), it is considered a "Network Alias".

I also couldn't figure it out the first time, until I plugged it into a DHCP network, went to the network page in the UI, and noticed that they were labeled there as Aliases. I agree that it should be clarified in the documentation.

 

[homer27081990]

Hmmm... This sounds like a nice feature request, though. One should be able to slap a static IPv4 on the machine as the main IPv4, if only for best-practise reasons.

 

[JJDuru]

I think this is a very unfortunate choice of words to label an IP.
I just ran into the same problem moments ago.