Can't manually assign static IP to this jail

[LiquidAurum]

I'm new to FreeNAS and creating a jail for plex, and I can't seem to get the static IP to be assigned. Whenever I go in and uncheck DHCP, and put in a static IP but when I go to start the jail I get the following error. I've tried disabling VNET and assigning statically and still don't have any luck. The only thing that truly works is DHCP enabled.

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

You need to provide more details. What version are you using? 11.2 Ux? 11.3?

 

[LiquidAurum]

11.3

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

Try updating to 11.3 U3. That fixed, for me at least, a whole bunch of networking issues with plugins/jails.

 

[LiquidAurum]

I don't see U3 in the update drop down only U2. I was able to update to U2, but still getting the error :/

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

Opps... I meant U2.

What I ended up doing when I upgraded from 11.2 U7 to 11.3 is I delete all my plugins, vlans and bridges and re-created them.

There were issues with 11.3 and 11.3 U1 on the networking where I had to use DHCP (fixing their IP addressed using DHCP reservations on the DHCP server) and they worked. With 11.3 U2, I could get rid of DHCP and manually set the IP address/subnet/gateway.

 

[LiquidAurum]

Yeah that update didn't work for me as far as fixing the issue. unfortunately, even when running on DHCP I can't seem to ping the damn jail from any device on my network. I can ping out, to google and every other device on the network but can't ping the jail itself.

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

Post a screenshot of your network configuration (Network | Interfaces).

 

[LiquidAurum]

Only have the one interface

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

I'm in the ironic situation where I'm trying to backport my (relatively) complicated setup to your simplier one;)

I don't see any bridges listed. Create a bridge (I think bridge0 - no space) and add re0 as a member.

Then under the jail's Advanced | Network configuration set the interface to vnet0:bridge0

 

[LiquidAurum]

so possibly some progress? It took it, however now it's showing 2 IP addresses one of which was the old DHCP one

Regardless though I still can't seem to ping either IP address from my desktop on the same network. I can however ping out everywhere else. I did notice when using the jls command on FreeNAS box it doesn't give me the IP address of the jail

 

[LiquidAurum]

Btw this is the bridge I made

 

[Newfoundland.Republic]

Try installing a new Plex instance from scratch using vnet0 and the advanced network interface of vnet0:bridge0

Edit: Doesn't have to be a Plex instance. Another plugin or jail should work too

 

[LiquidAurum]

ok so I just saw your update, but I did try and disable vnet, and it works now for some reason. I can ping it from my desktop and I got to the web portal on my desktop. To my understanding vnet is similar to like a vswitch on vmware I think right? so is it possible it was blocking traffic? I'd like to get it working with vnet enabled if possible

 

[LiquidAurum]

Sorry I'm throwing so much at you, I can look at the vnet issue later assuming it's not big of a deal to keep it how it is. But right now I think I messed up the permissions when I was creating my user/pools/share. And I can't add the FreeNAS folder (mounted folder) on plex library

 

[LiquidAurum]

Never mind, I updated permissions, I didn't have the user in the ACL, it's "working" to the point that I can add the libraries. But none of the videos are playing at all. Not sure what the issue is now