I’m trying to repurpose an R730 with TrueNAS. As far as I can tell it should be talking over my local net. The OS finds the ports for configuration, including a 4 port card and another port on the motherboard. I use static IP’s and those are assigned, but I cannot ping anything on my network from this box, and I cannot ping the box from anything else on the network.
Any suggestions on what I’ve missed?
This is a bit too vague. Screenshots, pictures and diagrams would be useful.
I resolved the problem when I realized that the motherboard port was being used by the on-board iDRAC software. I used Console Setup to delete the connection previously made to that port, and the other ports started talking.
Something doesn’t quite sound right there.
The “on-board” port is the iDRAC dedicated NIC, it’s useless for the host and wouldn’t show up in the host.
What can show up, if you enable it, is a virtual NIC that provides a dedicated link to iDRAC (typically it shows up as a USB NIC). This is not bridged to the iDRAC’s physical port and is only there to provide a quasi-in-band connection to the BMC, using the standard out-of-band tooling.
I am a relative novice to server hardware. In Console Setup >> Configure Network interfaces I see 5 devices listed:
ix0, ix1, igb0, igb1, ue0
The first 2 are fiber, the next three are RJ45.
Initially I assigned all of them static IP’s, and could not get a ping response or TrueNAS access through any of the RJ45’s.After deleting the interface for ue0, I could ping and access TrueNAS admin pages through igb0 & igb1. I do not have fiber to try the ix# interfaces.
After reading your post, I re-configured ue0 with an IP, and I can still use the other two, so…? I have not seen any other name for ue0.
The box works now, so I’m fine with it, but if this is a puzzle you’d like to explore then I’m game to try.
Steve
No, ue0 is the virtual USB NIC I mentioned in the previous post. It does not connect to any physical ports.
Were they different subnets? That’s the sort of thing I’d expect to see if they weren’t.
More generally speaking, you really want to start by plugging in a cable, then figuring out which port it is, and then configure the network.
Thanks for the info. They were on the same subnet, and are no longer.