Trouble with LAG and VLAN

[John Yarborough]

I just setup my FreeNAS 8 (x64) server. The hardware is a NetApp StoreVault S500 (OnTap died and I could not get it reloaded, FreeNAS seems to have worked! yay!). I am at the console trying to configure a LACP aggregate trunk back to a Cisco switch with several VLAN interfaces to host backups for a multi-tenant environment. I can manually create them by dropping down to the shell and everything seems to work as expected, but when I try to go through the menu or the web GUI, it doesn't work so well. When I reboot, I lose my manual config so I need to get it working through the menus.

I have reset to the factory default and from the console menu I chose to make a link aggregate. I go through, set it for lacp, add bge0 and bge1, and it seems to take it. Then I go to add the VLAN interfaces and it doesn't show up. I checked edit interface and it doesn't show up there either. I did go to the shell and run /etc/rc.d/netif restart and it did finally show up (if I recall correctly) but I still cannot get it to recognize the lagg0 interface as a valid option for setting up VLAN's on.

I'm fine with setting things up through the rc.conf file or at the command line, but I need the settings to stay persistent. In version 8, I can't find through the GUI how to edit the rc.conf file to make the settings persistent. The only option I have found is to have a startup script or something on permanent storage that is called and runs the commands after a reboot which seems very clunky to me.

Am I missing something or is this a bug? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

John

 

[John Yarborough]

Well, since I got no response in the forum I thought I would try the IRC channel. While I didn't get an answer to why the console menus were broke, I did get enough of a hint to help me work around it and get a working persistent configuration. Apparently the persistent settings are all found in /conf/base/etc instead of just /etc. If you try to modify those files directly however, you will fail because they are read-only. I found that you need to perform "mount -uw /" and then within vi use "w!" to force it to save "/conf/base/etc/rc.conf". With that I was able to add in the configuration for my lagg and my vlans, reboot, and still connect. Yay, my StoreVault is back alive!

 

[health5]

Hi John,
I've a trouble (maybe) like you. I'm trying to setup a lagg0 failover interface and adding vlans.
The only file I've found is /var/tmp/rc.conf.freenas that has some sense.
The /etc/rc.conf and /conf/base/etc/rc.conf are both empty of network/interface configurations.

For example the /var/tmp/rc.conf.freenas is like:
ifconfig_lagg0="inet X.Y.Z.X/16 laggproto failover laggport em0 laggport em1 laggport em2"
cloned_interfaces="lagg0 "
ifconfig_lagg1="DHCP laggproto failover laggport em3 laggport em4 laggport em5"
cloned_interfaces="lagg1 "
ifconfig_em0="up"
ifconfig_em3="up"
ifconfig_em1="up"
ifconfig_em4="up"
ifconfig_em2="up"
ifconfig_em5="up"
hostname="freenas.local"
static_routes=""
smartd_enable="NO"
netatalk_enable="NO"
afpd_enable="NO"
cnid_metad_enable="NO"
dbus_enable="NO"
avahi_daemon_enable="NO"
proftpd_enable="NO"
nfs_server_enable="NO"
rpc_lockd_enable="NO"
rpc_statd_enable="NO"
samba_enable="NO"
rsyncd_enable="NO"
bsnmpd_enable="NO"
sshd_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="NO"
istgt_enable="NO"
inadyn_enable="NO"
zfs_enable="NO"
powerd_enable="NO"
nfs_server_flags="-t -u -n 4"

The rc.conf do not contain any of above information.

Do you have manually edit the rc.conf to add network/vlan configuration?

 

[dbrown@victoria.ca]

hi john

do i understand that you have re-purposed your storevaults by loading freenas onto them?

if so, do you have any documentation, instruction, links, on how this is done?

we have a number of these storevaults & they don't always behave the way we think they should, therefore we've started to distrust them. if i can re-use them with some o/s that instills a better level of trust, i'd be happy.

thanks for anything you might be able to offer.
doug

 

[mburdick]

More Info

If you could provided more info on how you converted the NetApp S550 that would be awesome.

Thank