TrueNas broken after changing from DHCP to static IP address! Can't access web interface!

[fsociety3765]

Hi all,

I must be missing something here. Everything was working fine previously. All I needed to do was change from DHCP to static and it seems to have broken everything. The static IP change seems to have worked as I can SSH into the shell. But I cannot access the web interface anymore.

Hoping this is something silly.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

FS

 

[Samuel Tai]

Did you remember to also set the default gateway, subnet mask, and DNS servers? Those parameters are also set by DHCP.

 

[fsociety3765]

Yes. After setting the static IP and then set the default route and then I set the DNS nameservers.

I did this all from the console.

 

[elvisimprsntr]

I thought I read that anything done from the console does not persist on reboot.

 

[Redcoat]

I thought I read that anything done from the console does not persist on reboot.

That's the expected behavior for changes made from the Command Line, not the Console.

 

[fsociety3765]

Not sure what happened. But it suddenly just started working. I don't know what I did.

 

[elvisimprsntr]

That's the expected behavior for changes made from the Command Line, not the Console.

Sry I’m old school. Console to me is analogous to a serial console or TELNET/SSH terminal session.

 

[danb35]

Console to me is analogous to a serial console or TELNET/SSH terminal session.

There's a text-mode menu at the console that looks like this:

If you ssh in to the server, you can also access it by running/etc/netcli (and why iX thought it was a good idea to put an executable in /etc/, you'll have to ask them). Changes made through this menu are expected to be persistent, saved to the configuration database, etc. But if you drop to the shell and start hand-editing /etc/rc.conf, you'll find those changes will be quickly lost.