Hans Baldzuhn
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- Sep 29, 2014
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Hi every one,
We are having frequent access issue to our NAS since the installation of a new network card in a new interface.
We will try to revert back to the old configuration to see if the issue comes from it, but before I would need some advices.
Our build : FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x64 (r12686+b770da6_dirty It is based on a Supermicro X8DTL motherboard, with a dual Gigabit ethernet controller ( Intel 82574L Gigabit ). Until June 2014, the freenas had only one interface, the default lagg0, aggregating the two ethernet controllers, both connected via ethernet to the switch, set to 192.168.1.202
Everything was working well but the decision was made to upgrade the serveur with a 10Gb optical controller, a 10GB MYRICOM 10G-PCIE-8B optic.
The card was added to a new interface : mxge0 To maintain the ip adresse, this new interface was set to 192.168.1.202 and the lagg0 was set to 192.168.1.203
The lagg0 is now disconnected and only the optical card is connected to the switch.
The first problem we encountered was that trying to reach the NAS with his name was always redirecting to the lagg0 IP (which is not connected to anything), we had to manually edit the host file on each client to be able to reach it by name.
Then since the upgrade, we have a lot of access issue, at least once a day. When it happens, the NAS become unreachable, no client is able to access it, the network interface is not working either and we cannot ping it. Sometimes it comes back alive and steady, but sometime only a reboot solves the situation. Since June we reboot it at least once per week, while the is was running without interruption for nearly a year before the upgrade.
We don't have much knowledge on network administration so we didn't found any interesting information on what could cause the issue. The only thing I know is that the huge slow down occure when there is a heavy load on the NAS, but I can't know what was causing the load. Is there any way to have more information than was is accessible through the reporting graphs ?
We currently have around 15 workstations running on Windows, so all access to the NAS is done through CIFS share.
Here are our specific question:
- It is a bad thing to have another network interface alongside the lagg0 ? ( I guess yes because of the name resolution issue)
- Should the optical interface be inside the link aggretor with the two gigabit controllers ? (all of them connected to the switch)
- How can I make sure I have the latest driver to the MYRICOM card ?
- Is it safe to upgrade the FreeNAS version without loosing all configuration ?
Best, Hans
We are having frequent access issue to our NAS since the installation of a new network card in a new interface.
We will try to revert back to the old configuration to see if the issue comes from it, but before I would need some advices.
Our build : FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x64 (r12686+b770da6_dirty It is based on a Supermicro X8DTL motherboard, with a dual Gigabit ethernet controller ( Intel 82574L Gigabit ). Until June 2014, the freenas had only one interface, the default lagg0, aggregating the two ethernet controllers, both connected via ethernet to the switch, set to 192.168.1.202
Everything was working well but the decision was made to upgrade the serveur with a 10Gb optical controller, a 10GB MYRICOM 10G-PCIE-8B optic.
The card was added to a new interface : mxge0 To maintain the ip adresse, this new interface was set to 192.168.1.202 and the lagg0 was set to 192.168.1.203
The lagg0 is now disconnected and only the optical card is connected to the switch.
The first problem we encountered was that trying to reach the NAS with his name was always redirecting to the lagg0 IP (which is not connected to anything), we had to manually edit the host file on each client to be able to reach it by name.
Then since the upgrade, we have a lot of access issue, at least once a day. When it happens, the NAS become unreachable, no client is able to access it, the network interface is not working either and we cannot ping it. Sometimes it comes back alive and steady, but sometime only a reboot solves the situation. Since June we reboot it at least once per week, while the is was running without interruption for nearly a year before the upgrade.
We don't have much knowledge on network administration so we didn't found any interesting information on what could cause the issue. The only thing I know is that the huge slow down occure when there is a heavy load on the NAS, but I can't know what was causing the load. Is there any way to have more information than was is accessible through the reporting graphs ?
We currently have around 15 workstations running on Windows, so all access to the NAS is done through CIFS share.
Here are our specific question:
- It is a bad thing to have another network interface alongside the lagg0 ? ( I guess yes because of the name resolution issue)
- Should the optical interface be inside the link aggretor with the two gigabit controllers ? (all of them connected to the switch)
- How can I make sure I have the latest driver to the MYRICOM card ?
- Is it safe to upgrade the FreeNAS version without loosing all configuration ?
Best, Hans