KenY21
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Hi,
I recently bought 10G Network Kit (2x Chelsio N320E 10Gbit + 1x3m SFP+ 10GBe Cisco cable) for my FreeNAS box (Supermicro H8SCM-F).
At the moment my router (MikroTik RB4011iGS+RM) has one SFP+ port so tried to connect both, so I could backup few of my computers at the same time through the RJ45 gigabit ports.
Unfortunately, I wasn't even able to test how many 1G ports I could use to max out my FreeNAS RAID read/write speeds because after I add 10G interface into FreeNAS GUI (cxgb0) it starts to behave strangely.
Setup:
Network - 192.168.1.0/24
Onboard 1G NIC (IPMI) - 192.168.1.2/24 (DHCP with static IP based on mac address)
Onboard 1G NIC (em0) - 192.168.1.3/24 (DHCP with static IP based on mac address)
Chelsio N320E 10Gbit NIC (cxgb0) - 192.168.1.10/24 (static IP)
After I add 10G (cxgb0) interface in FreeNAS GUI it starts to behave strangely.
I can open FreeNAS GUI using both interfaces, but only through 1G (em0) ip address I can copy files from SMB share. If I try to copy from/to FreeNAS SMB share using 10G ip address copy dialog (Windows 10) just stuck and newer starts copying. If I copy trough 1G everything works as expected.
So at that moment, I thought, that maybe FreeNAS don't like that both interfaces are in the same network (usually all setups, that I have seen in YT or blogs use 10/40G directly connected to VMware/Citrix/Proxmox hosts to provide iSCSI storage for VM's using different network), so using Supermicro IPMI console I connect to FreeNAS console and deleted both interfaces and added only 10G interface using DCHP. 10GB interface got valid DCHP address from my router, but when I try to open FreeNAS GUI it just loades forever without success. I tried to connect to SMB share. I was able to open window with all SMB shares, but if I try to copy files from the share it fails as before (copy dialog (Windows 10) just stuck and newer starts copying). What's interesting as soon, as I add 1G interface with static IP (because DHCP is used for 10G) FreeNAS GUI starts working again with 1G or 10G ip address.
As I have two of the Chelsio cards I tried both (though maybe bad hardware), tried in different PCI slots and even upgraded to FreeNAS-11.2-RC2, but without luck. My ultimate goal would be to use only one 10G interface for all the data transfers, VM, plugins and accessing FreeNAS GUI and 1G interface keep only for IPMI access, both in the same network - 192.168.1.0/24.
Is it possible? What could cause this strange behavior? I would greatly appreciate any ideas or input.
I recently bought 10G Network Kit (2x Chelsio N320E 10Gbit + 1x3m SFP+ 10GBe Cisco cable) for my FreeNAS box (Supermicro H8SCM-F).
At the moment my router (MikroTik RB4011iGS+RM) has one SFP+ port so tried to connect both, so I could backup few of my computers at the same time through the RJ45 gigabit ports.
Unfortunately, I wasn't even able to test how many 1G ports I could use to max out my FreeNAS RAID read/write speeds because after I add 10G interface into FreeNAS GUI (cxgb0) it starts to behave strangely.
Setup:
Network - 192.168.1.0/24
Onboard 1G NIC (IPMI) - 192.168.1.2/24 (DHCP with static IP based on mac address)
Onboard 1G NIC (em0) - 192.168.1.3/24 (DHCP with static IP based on mac address)
Chelsio N320E 10Gbit NIC (cxgb0) - 192.168.1.10/24 (static IP)
After I add 10G (cxgb0) interface in FreeNAS GUI it starts to behave strangely.
I can open FreeNAS GUI using both interfaces, but only through 1G (em0) ip address I can copy files from SMB share. If I try to copy from/to FreeNAS SMB share using 10G ip address copy dialog (Windows 10) just stuck and newer starts copying. If I copy trough 1G everything works as expected.
So at that moment, I thought, that maybe FreeNAS don't like that both interfaces are in the same network (usually all setups, that I have seen in YT or blogs use 10/40G directly connected to VMware/Citrix/Proxmox hosts to provide iSCSI storage for VM's using different network), so using Supermicro IPMI console I connect to FreeNAS console and deleted both interfaces and added only 10G interface using DCHP. 10GB interface got valid DCHP address from my router, but when I try to open FreeNAS GUI it just loades forever without success. I tried to connect to SMB share. I was able to open window with all SMB shares, but if I try to copy files from the share it fails as before (copy dialog (Windows 10) just stuck and newer starts copying). What's interesting as soon, as I add 1G interface with static IP (because DHCP is used for 10G) FreeNAS GUI starts working again with 1G or 10G ip address.
As I have two of the Chelsio cards I tried both (though maybe bad hardware), tried in different PCI slots and even upgraded to FreeNAS-11.2-RC2, but without luck. My ultimate goal would be to use only one 10G interface for all the data transfers, VM, plugins and accessing FreeNAS GUI and 1G interface keep only for IPMI access, both in the same network - 192.168.1.0/24.
Is it possible? What could cause this strange behavior? I would greatly appreciate any ideas or input.