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Not sure what else I can do. The problem is the whole system hard locks. I have pulled the USB NIC and reverted to my internal 1Gbps card for now to see if it still reproduces.

Hi @jinlife and @JorgeB. System locked up again today and it happened without any network usage to speak of. Here is the syslog that was captured on crash. syslog-previous

I have turned on syslog flash mirroring now, so the next time it occurs again I can post the logs. I'm starting to think that it is just getting to hot due to usage, maybe the logs will give some indication when it happens again.

Thanks @JorgeB! After giving it some thought I'm starting to think that maybe the NIC is getting too warm and eventually causing the crash. It seems to occur after 12+ hours of constant usage. I'll set to mirror to flash though so I can get a good set of logs the next time it occurs. I'm not familiar what you mean by tree driver. Does that just mean that the support is now native and the plugin is no longer necessary?

Hi All, I bought the following NIC a few months ago https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093FB9QWB?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details and I've been having nothing but problems with it since 6.12.5 was released. Initially it was a driver issue and then it was believed it was due to me using macvlan, but I remedied that and I'm still having a system freeze after several hours of pretty moderate network utilization. which leads to needing to power the system off and have to do a parity check since it is a dirty shutdownn. I have no idea if it is a hardware, driver or unRAID issue, but at this point I want to have something that supports 2.5Gbps or faster and is USB 3.0. I don't have an open slot on my motherboard. If anyone has any recommendations I would really appreciate it. Cost is no concern.

System just hard locked again. I have to power it down when this occurs. Just before it locked up I did see some some warning and errors related to the USB NIC about timeouts, etc. I stream music videos once a week from unRAID to my desktop PC. Both have 2.5Gbps cards. The desktop PC has an onboard NIC and unRAID has the RealTek external USB. The last time this occurred was also when I did 12+ hours of streaming. The issue started after 6.12.5, but I am not necessarily blaming unRAID or the NIC drivers it could very well be that the external NIC isn't good. Does anyone know of an external USB 2.5Gbps NIC that has built in unRAID support? I'm tired of fighting with the RealTek.

I just made the change. I'll report back if I have another system lockup. It generally happens within 24 hours. Thanks again!

Hi @ich777, Thank you for the quick response. I will admit I'm not entirely sure what the issue is here. I've been running this exact configuration for several years without issue. Was there a change in 6.12.5 or .6 that made my configuration an issue? Also, I currently swapped back to using my on board gigabit card and am not seeing any issues at all so far. I'm trying to figure out what I need to change. Thanks!

Hi All, For the last several days I've had my unRAID lock up/go offline. Because of the lockup, I wasn't able to capture the syslog data, but I did notice that there were some no response type errors in eth0. Today while I was performing some file activity I lost my connection to the share, so I went to the syslog and captured a diagnostic. I do see a lot of errors. I'm not certain they are related to my RealTek device, but I thought I'd start here since the eth0 errors. I'm running 6.12.6 with the latest RealTek plugin and before 6.12.5 released, my system had been rock solid for years. Any help would be really appreciated. diagnostics-20231213-0649.zip

Working now for me too. Thanks @jinlife @ich777 and @JorgeB!

Hi, Thank you. I did just that and all is well again. I tried to delete the post since I resolved it on my own, but it didn't work.

Hi All, Let me start by saying this is entirely my fault, but I desperately need help in getting my server back online. I was having driver issues for my NIC and decided to roll back to 6.12.4. the issue is that I had already upgraded to 6.12.6 and was only able to revert back to 6.12.5 in the GUI. I searched the forum and found a post that said that you should replace three files to go back to a prior version. the files that I replaced are as follows: bzroot, bzimage and bzroot-gui. I also included their accompanying hash files. The issue is that I replaced the 6.12.6 files with 6.12.4 files while the server was online. I removed the thumb drive from my unRAID server and placed it in another Windows machine and then attempted to copy back over the 6.12.6 files that I had over written with the earlier version. Unfortunately, I am still getting the checksum error, and based on a comment from another user, I may have made a horrible mistake by copying those files initially, while the server was running. Is there anyway for me to recover from this easily? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Uh oh. Well that is a problem then. My internal USB with my original unRAID files, has a mixture of 6.12.6 and 6.12.4. I only copied bzroot, bzimage and bzroot-gui from 6.12.4. I just tried booting from the new media and it is still giving the checksum error even when disabling the internal media. I guess I'll pull the drive later and copy the 6.12.6 files back over the 6.12.4 files I mistakingly overwrote. Thanks again for the help.

Ok, but if I boot from a newly created 6.12.6 media, will I be able to copy the files to the existing server drive inside my case or am I going to have to pull it? It's going to be a pain to do, so I'm hoping for a workaround.

Hi @JorgeB, Thanks for testing this. As an somewhat unrelated aside, is there a way for me to replace the biz* files on my bootable unRAID USB drive without pulling the drive from the computer? I was attempting last night to roll back to 6.11 and was following instructions posted in the forum and apparently neglected to copy over all of the biz* files and now I am getting a checksum error. If I make new media can I boot to it and then copy the proper biz* files to the internal drive?

Thank you for testing. I'll roll back and wait.

Thank you, I really appreciate it.

Thanks for your response. At this point the plugin author doesn't think it's their plugin and you believe it is. Is there a list of compatible 2.5GB USB NIC's with native unRAID support listed anywhere?

I started there. The author recommended that I rename the network.cfg and copy a new one from the install media. I tried that and the device still gets renamed during boot.

The problem is only with the Realtek. If I make the onboard NIC primary (eth0) it will stay that way.

Hi Everyone, I recently updated to 6.12.5 and my network stopped working. I have the following USB 2.5GB NIC https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B093FB9QWB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1, and was using the RTL8156(B) USB Drivers from user @jinlife. When starting up it would say that the eth0 interface was not found. I posted in the support thread and saw a recommendation to uninstall, reboot and then reinstall the driver and some code was updated. After rebooting the issue persisted even after a couple of reboots. I collected diagnostic logs and @jinlife pointed out in the system.log there was the following line: Dec 2 16:38:07 MojoRyzen kernel: igb 0000:08:00.0 eth123: renamed from eth0 It was suggested that I copy a clean network.cfg from the installation media after renaming the existing one and I did that as well as replaced the network-rules.cfg and rebooted. It made no difference, but I collected a second set of logs just in case. I imagine if I can figure out what is renaming the interface and stop it, it will likely resolve the issue. The only thing I added software wise were the updates to 6.12.5 and 6.12.6 after .5 didn't help and .6 was released. I have attached both sets of diagnostic logs if anyone can take a look. TIA! diagnostics-20231202-1639.zip diagnostics-20231202-2158.zip

Yeah. I don't like the thought of doing that. I'll just look for a USB NIC with native support. Thanks anyway. EDIT: I tried this and it made no difference. I'll post in the support forum to see if I can figure out why eth0 is being renamed to eth122 when the USB NIC is made primary.

To be honest it looked like it happened after me switching primary eth0 back and forth between the internal NIC and the USB one. I was also attempting to try different USB ports because I desperately wanted it to work. Is there any way for me to reset this so eth122 is removed?

Hi, I have the following USB 2.5GB NIC https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B093FB9QWB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1, I was using your driver with success up until I updated to 6.12.5 and then it stopped working. When starting up it would say that the eth0 interface was not found. I saw the previous response about updating the driver, so I uninstalled the r8156 driver and then rebooted. I then downloaded the driver again and rebooted and the issue remained. I saw then there was an update to unRAID to 6.12.6 and I updated. The issue still remains I rebooted a number of times and it just won't work. I have attached the diagnostic logs. diagnostics-20231202-1639.zip

Hi All, I purchased an ASUS USB-C2500 to replace my on board NIC. It is an external USB NIC. It shows up under system devices, But when I look at network settings only the onboard NIC appears. Do I need to take any other steps to make this work? There was something I read online that indicated you had to stop the array and then you could switch the MAC address, but because there is only one NIC showing up under network devices I'm assuming that won't work. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks in advance!