I have multiple separate network that my NAS normally serves, recently been tring truenas, but am pulling my hair out trying to get the network interfaces to act like they’re supposed to. This is just debian under the hood, an no where near as difficult on Proxmox.
I have two networks and two NICs. 10gb nic talks to data network, 1gb nic is mgmt. Nothing I do in the UI or CLI lets me set an ‘alias’ for more than one interface without breaking the gateway. Been doing a lot of reading, starting to think TrueNAS is a toy vs a real tool. LET ME DO MY NETWORKING WITHOUT FIGHTING ME.
There has to be a way… I like the UI, but a UI that doesn’t reflect the underlying system is worse than useless…
Standard limitations for a brand-new user. Spend some time here–or reply to the DM you got when you joined about the tutorial–and your permissions will increase.
Well, that doesn’t help me host my backend network while keeping my mgmt interface separate. Do i just force my config manually? everything I read elsewhere says that breaks things. Is truenas just not for me?
What do you exactly mean by “breaking the gateway”? Can you provide a screenshot of your settings that don’t work (before applying network changes)? And perhaps a screenshot of your working settings.
want the console output instead? its much more verbose vs. reading between the UI lines.
enp36s0f0/1 are in a bridge holding the same IP. 10gb nic, no lagg etc… enp39s0 is a 2.5gb nic i want to use on the internet facing side/mgmt network. ideally id use vlans etc. but I cant even get basic stuff to work on a flat l2 network…
can embed media items, since your forum is set up for 5 year old art history majors…
enp39s0 192.168.102.189/24
br01 192.168.103.189/24
gateway 192.168.102.1
br01 doesnt need a gateway. I could just be frustrated, but I’m feeling like the UI designers made things the way they think they should be vs the way they actually are…
no, i heard you, doesn’t mean I agree with the policy… best of luck TrueNAS, I won’t be recommending you to anyone as a real tool… Can’t even set a static IPs… wtf is an ‘alias’, what a dumb quasi-legacy convention. its like talking to AI vibe code…
The network support on TrueNAS is very frustrating.
For certain operations, you have to resort to the cli.
There are two cli options. sudo cli_console, select option 1.
On my system, for some reason, this is really sluggish, but is one way to get things done which are otherwise impossible thru the GUI.
The other is accessible thru option 7, the TrueNAS CLI Shell. On my system, this is so very sluggish that it takes several seconds just to echo a character typed, so it is best to create a command line and copy/paste, once you know what the command is. I think I had to resort to this because the option 1 approach blew up with some nasty python stack backtrace.
Yea thanks for the help and clarity. TrueNAS isn’t going to work for me, I literally only tried it because I presumed it was polished and would make my life easier. That is obviously not the case… Back to proxmox I guess…
“breaking the gateway”
Re: if i set another static IP on a different interface, the UI ‘forgets’ the previous gateway and nullifies it vs just leaving it… maddening
Did you just set IP on a different interface or did you also set a gateway on this interface? For the record, I myself set the static ip on the second nic (without setting the gateway). That didn’t “break” the gateway on the first nic.
