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Hey guys, I've encountered another issue with my FreeNAS 9.x machine and was in need of some help and guidance. I've had a few issues since upgrading from 8.x to 9.x and had everything ironed out for a few months, until recently of course.
The issue seems to be my network card interface flapping. Essentially, I open a few of the web GUIs via a browser (about 5 GUIs including FreeNAS) and the connection dies. After some troubleshooting I determined it was the network interface dropping. I let a ping run until I get a reply back and the FreeNAS machine is reachable again. I may or may not be able to access the GUI again though as the connection will drop once I try and connect. It's really hit-or-miss.
Not sure what to pinpoint as the culprit thus far. I'm on vacation as I've figured this issue out so I haven't spent much time getting my elbows dirty. Thought I'd ask for some feedback before getting home in a few days and digging into it. I don't believe it to be a cabling issue due to the issue happening under some load on the FreeNAS box. I haven't quite ruled out my switches but they're lower on the list (a couple of gigabit, unmanaged switches).
I've included some information below that may assist in this endeavour. Cheers!
Network card: Intel Gigabit NIC (82541PI controller)
The issue seems to be my network card interface flapping. Essentially, I open a few of the web GUIs via a browser (about 5 GUIs including FreeNAS) and the connection dies. After some troubleshooting I determined it was the network interface dropping. I let a ping run until I get a reply back and the FreeNAS machine is reachable again. I may or may not be able to access the GUI again though as the connection will drop once I try and connect. It's really hit-or-miss.
Not sure what to pinpoint as the culprit thus far. I'm on vacation as I've figured this issue out so I haven't spent much time getting my elbows dirty. Thought I'd ask for some feedback before getting home in a few days and digging into it. I don't believe it to be a cabling issue due to the issue happening under some load on the FreeNAS box. I haven't quite ruled out my switches but they're lower on the list (a couple of gigabit, unmanaged switches).
I've included some information below that may assist in this endeavour. Cheers!
Network card: Intel Gigabit NIC (82541PI controller)
Code:
Build FreeNAS-9.2.1.5-RELEASE-x64 (80c1d35)
Platform AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
Memory 11752MB
System Time Sat Jul 05 20:00:14 EDT 2014
Uptime 8:00PM up 3 mins, 0 users
Load Average 0.86, 0.76, 0.35
# ifconfig
re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
ether 6c:f0:49:e3:b7:78
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>)
status: no carrier
em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=2098<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 90:e2:ba:3c:07:2c
inet 192.168.2.120 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
inet 192.168.2.200 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
ipfw0: flags=8801<UP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 65536
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 02:42:84:e7:a9:00
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
member: epair3a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 16 priority 128 path cost 2000
member: epair2a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 15 priority 128 path cost 2000
member: epair1a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 14 priority 128 path cost 2000
member: epair0a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 13 priority 128 path cost 2000
member: em0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 128 path cost 20000
epair0a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 02:09:b9:00:0d:0a
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
status: active
epair1a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 02:88:bc:00:0e:0a
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
status: active
epair2a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 02:f1:61:00:0f:0a
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
status: active
epair3a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 02:40:90:00:10:0a
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: Ethernet 10Gbase-T (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
status: active
