SOLVED Stuck setting up IP manually

[davydden]

I am new to FreeNAS, just installed the latest 11 on my box (ASRock E3C236D2I, full specs are in the signature) and have some issues with IP. This is a home network with some local rebranded (?) router (Fritz!box) from O2 Germany.

I can connect to the server via IMPI (that's how I installed FreeNAS), it picks up IP from DHCP without issues.
But when I start FreeNAS, it does not pick up IP from DHCP. In the manual IP setup i have a choice of two interfaces: em0 and igb0. Currently the only network cable connected to the box is via the dedicated IPMI LAN port. I tried to figure out which interface to use by looking at the output of ifconfig from terminal, but I don't see a matching MAC address there in "either/hwaddr" fields as compared to the one listed in BIOS BMC Network Configuration section. The addresses are different in the last 3 pairs of letters+numbers. I am a bit puzzled. lspci shows two ethernet controllers (as expected): Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM (rev 31) and Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03).

I would appreciate any advices and help in configuring network for a home FreeNAS.

 

[cobrakiller58]

If you read the motherboard manual it says that one port is dedicated to IPMI, connect a second cable to the motherboard and DHCP should work on that interface as well. page 11 says LAN1 is the port in the middle.

 

[davydden]

If you read the motherboard manual it says that one port is dedicated to IPMI, connect a second cable to the motherboard and DHCP should work on that interface as well. page 11 says LAN1 is the port in the middle.

Thanks for the advice, I will give it a try...

p.s. I did read the manual, but since I am new to server motherboards I was not aware that you can't use the same port.

 

[cobrakiller58]

some boards share a port like my supermicro X7 did when I first purchased it and some don't like my X8

 

[davydden]

I did that but still no luck with Network configuration...

 

[cobrakiller58]

using the IPMI can you reset EM0 and say yes to DHCP FreeNAS guide

 

[SweetAndLow]

When you plug in the cable what is the output of ifconfig?

 

[davydden]

using the IPMI can you reset EM0 and say yes to DHCP freenas guide

did not help, i chose `em0` and then Delete[no], Reset[n], DHCP[y], Name[], IPv6[n].

When you plug in the cable what is the output of ifconfig?

ifconfig shows three interfaces: igb0, em0 and lo0. Looks like I am plugged in igb0 as it shows status=active and media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>), whereas em0 has "no carrier" status.

Will try with igb0 now...

 

[davydden]

ok, finally can see FreeNAS web GUI. I had enter manually IP (chose the one with 100 at the end and /24 mask). Thanks for the help!

p.s. feel free to mark the topic as resolved.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Well fixed for now. You still have something wrong on your network because DHCP should work. But most people have networks that hardly work so I guess this might be ok.

 

[skyyxy]

I am new to FreeNAS, just installed the latest 11 on my box (ASRock E3C236D2I, full specs are in the signature) and have some issues with IP. This is a home network with some local rebranded (?) router (Fritz!box) from O2 Germany.

I can connect to the server via IMPI (that's how I installed FreeNAS), it picks up IP from DHCP without issues.
But when I start FreeNAS, it does not pick up IP from DHCP. In the manual IP setup i have a choice of two interfaces: em0 and igb0. Currently the only network cable connected to the box is via the dedicated IPMI LAN port. I tried to figure out which interface to use by looking at the output of ifconfig from terminal, but I don't see a matching MAC address there in "either/hwaddr" fields as compared to the one listed in BIOS BMC Network Configuration section. The addresses are different in the last 3 pairs of letters+numbers. I am a bit puzzled. lspci shows two ethernet controllers (as expected): Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM (rev 31) and Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03).

I would appreciate any advices and help in configuring network for a home FreeNAS.

Looking almost same issue like my FNS-BOX.
I build the new FNS-BOX with e3-1230v2/intel 1200BTL(1200BTL has dual 1Gb network ports and called em0 and em1 in FreeNAS system)/32GB ECC DDR3/Intel X520 DA2/LSI9200-8I.
When install FreeNAS 11.0U4 or lastest stable 11.1 and DHCP network method are working fine. But not working when I manually the IPs(both of em0 and 1).
When I clean install the old FNS version(9.10.2 u6) everthing is working good.
Anybody can help ? Or just the new bug in new Freenas? Thanks advance.