How do a setup a static IP for my NAS?

[HazRam]

Hi All,

In the last couple of weeks I have power failures in the hood and when I switch all my NAS, PC and AV receiver on they get allocated different IP addresses each time.
Is there a way to create a static IP for my NAS so I don't have to keep setting up my Media drive in Windows each time I loose power?

Can someone please point me to an easy to use instructions page on how to do this please?

Cheers

PS: Sorry I should have read the Subject of the thread before posting ;).

 

[nightshade00013]

There are two ways to do this. You can go into the FreeNAS Network settings and manually set a static IP address or go into your router and set a static reserve that will give your FreeNAS the same IP address any time it does a DHCP request.

http://portforward.com/ or your router manufacturer will have some information that you can look up for your router.

http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_network.html is if you want to set the IP as static on the FreeNAS itself.

 

[HazRam]

There are two ways to do this. You can go into the FreeNAS Network settings and manually set a static IP address or go into your router and set a static reserve that will give your FreeNAS the same IP address any time it does a DHCP request.

http://portforward.com/ or your router manufacturer will have some information that you can look up for your router.

http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_network.html is if you want to set the IP as static on the FreeNAS itself.

Thanks Nightshade I will give them a go and see how it all works out.

Hopefully I won't have any other questions but just in case thanks for your help.

Cheers

 

[HazRam]

There are two ways to do this. You can go into the FreeNAS Network settings and manually set a static IP address or go into your router and set a static reserve that will give your FreeNAS the same IP address any time it does a DHCP request.

http://portforward.com/ or your router manufacturer will have some information that you can look up for your router.

http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_network.html is if you want to set the IP as static on the FreeNAS itself.

Hi Nightshade,

Can you tell me when configuring the Static IP on the NAS through the Web GUI what should I be putting down for the "Destination Network" and is the Gateway the IP address I need to choose eg: 192.168.0.15 and what would the "Description" be?

Sorry I am just really new to all this.

Cheers

 

[Mashly]

Hi HazRam,

Not sure if this will help as I haven't done this and cant attempt it as not at home at the moment, but a quick search came up with this site.

http://homeserver.wikidot.com/set-lan-ip-gui

And here if you scroll down there is a explanation of how to do it from the actual box

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/how-to-set-up-a-static-ip-for-freenas-gui.15825/

Hope these help, and as soon as I get home I will try to set it up on mine and give you a run through

 

[gpsguy]

btw, you should get a UPS and configure FreeNAS to shutdown gracefully after a power failure.

 

[Mashly]

you should get a UPS

This is sound advice. Most of the disk failures I had when working with two servers collecting scientific data happened when they did not shutdown correctly, even though they had UPS's, they were ancient and not the best.

Something like this might do.

http://www.ebuyer.com/520089-dynamo...kwid=sHbr00r6W_dc&pcrid=51508064339&pkw=&pmt=