I bought a miniR with CORE pre-installed and added a 10GbE SFP+ NIC as a package from ixSystems directly. We are trying to bind a public IP from the university to this machine and I need to get the mac address of the fiber NIC. Upon boot the NIC lights up red and it eventually goes away. I am able to blink the lights from the BIOS, so it looks like everything is working. In the dashboard however, I only see ethernet devices under interfaces. Running lspci | grep Chelsio shows a fibre NIC, but no info on the mac address. Strangely, even the ip command does not work, it says zsh: command not found: ip . ifconfig works but again, I only see ethernet interfaces. Not sure how to proceed from here, can anyone provide some suggestions? Thanks for your help!
Incompatible SFP+ optics, perhaps?
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I posted this question on the discord as well, I have been able to address my issue. Long story short, I saw that cxl0 and cxl1 both said ether, so I didn’t think they were the interfaces I was looking for. I have been able to get the MAC address. Thanks!
Hey @jmgonza6 - glad you got this sorted out.
I’ll touch base here in a minute, but as I understand it you’re looking to make this unit a shared repository of sorts for multiple departments in your university. Working with your IT team is probably a good idea here as they’ll be able to understand the networking design of your university to ensure that you don’t have a situation like an accidental routing loop with multiple interfaces in use, as well as how to connect it in the fastest and safest manner for that external or inter-departmental access.
And as mentioned on Discord - you’ll probably want to update your system from CORE to SCALE/CE, as that will give you the more traditional Linux-y commands it sounds like you want to use with ip addr and such.
Yep, @HoneyBadger exactly this. I decided to make a separate post since this was a speed bump in my original task and I wanted to give plenty of context. Thanks again for your help!