setting up a bridge network on truenas scale is this Broken?

[Mkubiak402]

I'm Trying to setup a network bridge on my Quad port Nic to reduce some bottlenecks and this seems to be completely broken.
When I get all the settings in and Click the 60 sec test. at that time all 4 of the computers connect online but the Web UI is locked up so there is no way to save it.
then the 60 sec timer times out it then auto Reverts the changes drops me back to the login.

I'm connecting 4 other Computers to this thing directly I don't have a switch that is capable of link aggregation
there are 6 interfaces 2 on the board and 4 on the Quad Intel NIC. i want to connect 4 computers 1 per port on the Quad NIC so each PC had a 1 gig connection to the TreuNAS server

 

[sretalla]

When I get all the settings in and Click test for 6 secs all 4 of the computers connect online but the Web UI is locked up so there is no way to save it. then the 60 times out it then auto Reverts the changes drops me back to the login..

I would recommend leaving it at the default 60 seconds...

Are you moving the IP address from the NIC to the Bridge when you make the change?

Accessing NAS From a VM

Provides instructions on how to create a bridge interface for the VM and provides Linux and Windows examples.

www.truenas.com

 

[Mkubiak402]

I would recommend leaving it at the default 60 seconds...

Are you moving the IP address from the NIC to the Bridge when you make the change?

Accessing NAS From a VM

Provides instructions on how to create a bridge interface for the VM and provides Linux and Windows examples.

www.truenas.com

I dot know what you are talking about changing the default 60 seconds???

I'm not running any thing in a VM TrueNAS running on its own hardware.

 

[sretalla]

I dot know what you are talking about changing the default 60 seconds???

I see you edited your post to show 60 rather than 6 seconds as it was originally... that's what I meant.

I'm not running any thing in a VM TrueNAS running on its own hardware.

The documentation I linked to refers to how to set up a bridge (VM or not).

I see from your screenshot though, that you don't understand what you're doing.

Adding (presumably all) 5 interfaces to a bridge won't get you anything useful. Actually you probably don't even want a bridge.

Did you want to set up a LAGG interface (bond in Linux terms)... which will also require some setup on your switch... and shouldn't include NICs of differing types (so not eno1 as far as I can see).

Also, depending on what your bottleneck is (I guess you just want more than 1Gbps for a single file download), you're not likely to solve it with a bond.

 

[Mkubiak402]

I see you edited your post to show 60 rather than 6 seconds as it was originally... that's what I meant.


The documentation I linked to refers to how to set up a bridge (VM or not).

I see from your screenshot though, that you don't understand what you're doing.

Adding (presumably all) 5 interfaces to a bridge won't get you anything useful. Actually you probably don't even want a bridge.

Did you want to set up a LAGG interface (bond in Linux terms)... which will also require some setup on your switch... and shouldn't include NICs of differing types (so not eno1 as far as I can see).

Also, depending on what your bottleneck is (I guess you just want more than 1Gbps for a single file download), you're not likely to solve it with a bond.

No I don't want a LAGG I'm connecting 4 other Computers to this thing directly I don't have a switch that is capable of link aggregation
there are 6 interfaces 2 on the board and 4 on the Quad Intel NIC.

there looks like other people are having the same problem as me

Network Bridge not working on 22.02 - RC.2

i have installed truenas scale 22.02 rc2 on my nas, and i cannot get bridge working fine after many efforts. here is what i have done: 1, using web ui. A physical interface ( let's say eno1 )with static ip or dhcp will work well . Then i create a bridge with eno1 as it's member ...

www.truenas.com

 

[sretalla]

OK, so now that it's clearer (for me at least) what you're actually trying to do, it seems that all you need to do is ensure that the bridge only contains the NICs that don't host your TrueNAS system IP (or move your TrueNAS system IP to the bridge as laid out in the linked doc if you're relying on it somehow to be part of the bridge).

Have you disabled hardware offload on each of the member NICs before adding them? (maybe safest to save and test those settings first before setting up the bridge)

 

[Mkubiak402]

OK, so now that it's clearer (for me at least) what you're actually trying to do, it seems that all you need to do is ensure that the bridge only contains the NICs that don't host your TrueNAS system IP (or move your TrueNAS system IP to the bridge as laid out in the linked doc if you're relying on it somehow to be part of the bridge).

Have you disabled hardware offload on each of the member NICs before adding them? (maybe safest to save and test those settings first before setting up the bridge)

ok so Don't add the NIC port that is plugged in to the Router just the 4 ports i want to bridge, I have not disable hardware offload
I'll read through this carefully when i get out of work I give it a try when i get out of work.

 

[sretalla]

ok so Don't add the NIC port that is plugged in to the Router just the 4 ports i want to bridge

Depends on what you need the connected computers to see... if you rely on the connection to the upstream router coming from the "primary" NIC, then it would need to be bridged also, but if you do that, you need the NAS IP address to live on the bridge interface and not that NIC.

 

[Mkubiak402]

Depends on what you need the connected computers to see... if you rely on the connection to the upstream router coming from the "primary" NIC, then it would need to be bridged also, but if you do that, you need the NAS IP address to live on the bridge interface and not that NIC.

ok From reading this i did every thing its telling me to do right.
I added all 4 of the port + the NIC Running to the router, 5 ports in total.
it works in the Time frame of the 60sec test we can use the internet and every thing, But because the Web UI locks up the 60 sec it expires and reverts the original settings.
ill make a video and post it to YouTube

 

[sretalla]

Can you show me the screenshot of the bridge before you run the test?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You also need to move the IP address to the bridge interface.

And probably (not being able to test just now) the MAC address will change, so I advise to increase the timeout to something like 300 seconds and clear the ARP cache of the desktop system you use to connect to the UI after clicking "test".

 

[Mkubiak402]

ok well I got it to "work" by giving the incoming NIC a static IP address but as soon as you reboot the TrueNAS server and it comes back up you cant get access the WEB UI and the network drives any more..
so the Web UI is dead but the inter net is getting though

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You must give the IP address to the bridge interface and no IP address at all to all of the bridge member interfaces.

 

[Mkubiak402]

You must give the IP address to the bridge interface and no IP address at all to all of the bridge member interfaces.

yeah i did that it did the same deal where it just dropped back to the login after locking up.

 

[Mkubiak402]

ok when i do this it works good i can access all the shared drives and the internet and shared drives can be seen on the PC on the Bridge
but as soon as you do a reboot its broken and only get the internet on the other Computers

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youtu.be

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I do not see a bridge interface in that video?

 

[Mkubiak402]

I do not see a bridge interface in that video?

it's there it was in the drop down menu I have to reset the server and reload the settings to get it back up.
and i'll do it again

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You know that you need to name it according to Linux standards? If I am not entirely mistaken - my knowledge of SCALE is limited. But did you name it "br0" in your previous attempts? If not, try doing so.

 

[Mkubiak402]

ok i named it br0

 

[Mkubiak402]

i have no clue when it comes to Linux the Techer we had for that class did not show us any thing and passed us..
so i have to do this on my own more or less

i have done this on Windows 100's of times