PlexMediaServer plugin start problem

[Evertb1]

Giving up on the idea that my freenas box should only be a file server I decided to install the PlexMediaServer plugin. I have used the web GUI to install it. However after installation I could not start the plugin.
There were three things I noted:
1) The console output showed timeouts on the URL of the Freenas box: See screenshot2
2) Opening the shell of the jail I got an error on pinging the Freenas box see

Code:

ping: sendto: Network is unreachable

Clearly some or other network problem. Looking at the configuration of the jail I noted that the jail had a fixed IP adres (192.168.0.1). I also noted that there was an option to get an IP adres by DHCP. I cleared the field with the fixed IP adres and ticked the DHCP option. A restart of the jale took care of getting a new IP adres. And yes The plugin started ot once and every GUI function related to the jail and the plugin was far more responsive.

I am left with a couple of questions:
Do I need to give the jail a fixed IP adres form my DHCP server?
Why is by default a fixed adres assigned while this lead to problems?i

 

[m0nkey_]

Please post the output of ifconfig on both the jail and the FreeNAS host. When pasting, please use the [ code ] tags.

 

[Evertb1]

Please post the output of ifconfig on both the jail and the FreeNAS host. When pasting, please use the [ code ] tags.

My first reaction was: Don't you mean ipconfig? But it's high time I learn a bit more about the Unix commando's. Here are both outputs. The jail is getting it's IP from the DHCP service of my router.
Ifconfig output of the jail:

Code:

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 0x1																				
		inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000																						  
		nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>																				  
		groups: lo																												
epair0b: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500													  
		options=8<VLAN_MTU>																										
		ether e6:82:3f:67:a7:82																									
		inet 192.168.178.28 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255															
		nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>																						
		media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)																		
		status: active																											
		groups: epair 

ifconfig output of the freenas host:

Code:

igb0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500														 
		options=6403bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>	
		ether 0c:c4:7a:aa:66:d8																									 
		nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>																						
		media: Ethernet autoselect																								 
		status: no carrier																										 
igb1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500												 
		options=2400b9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6>								 
		ether 0c:c4:7a:aa:66:d9																									 
		inet 192.168.178.40 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255															
		nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>																						
		media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)																		
		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 0x3																				 
		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 02:31:7b:f3:63:00																									 
		nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>																						
		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: epair0a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>															   
				ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 128 path cost 2000																	 
		member: igb1 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>																 
				ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost 55																		
epair0a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500											   
		options=8<VLAN_MTU>																										 
		ether 02:ff:e0:00:05:0a																									 
		nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>																								   
		media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)																		 
		status: active																											 
		groups: epair 

 

[motostu]

I had the exact same problem. I gave up and left it as DHCP, but ensured the address will not change by reserving it in my DHCP server. I'll be interested in what the solution is, because I compared the ifconfig between a static IP jail and a DHCP jail and could find no difference, other than the IP address.

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[Evertb1]

I had the exact same problem. I gave up and left it as DHCP, but ensured the address will not change by reserving it in my DHCP server. I'll be interested in what the solution is, because I compared the ifconfig between a static IP jail and a DHCP jail and could find no difference, other than the IP address.

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Well, I have put the problem on the backburner for the moment because there have been some other problems to handle. I have been busy with using a Zyxel NAS as rsync server for the Freenas box. But that had an rsync implementation that was far from complete (zyxel put up its own brand of rsync called zsync). Not to speak about the bad SSH implementation. Luckely it's almost handled with the good use of some third party plug-ins and it looks like I have my rsync tasks running almost OK. I still need to fugure some things out about the attributes on the transferred files and directories. As soon as I am satisfied with it I come back to that Plex plugin. I removed it for now so I can give it a fresh start.

 

[Evertb1]

After reinstalling Plex (for the third time) it is running now. I am not out of trouble yet but the problems I see now are more specific. So I close this thread as solved and start another thread.