David Bott

Hi... Upgraded to 6.10.3 and it seems that the Network Stats, under Stats, is no longer displaying. It just shows broken graphic icons. I uninstalled and reinstalled STATS and still the same. (See attached) Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you. David

Thank you kindly. I just have not needed to upgrade in a long time. But figured it was about time as mentioned. I had remembered something about the key. My hardware is so old I can't do VM's, so that is not an issue. I will have a new controller....LSI Logic Controller Card LSI00301 SAS 9207-8i 8Port Internal SAS/SATA 6Gb/s PCI Express Single - So not sure if I need to do anything for that. I am going with the following hardware...(Using the same case I have now which has 7 bays. But upgrading the PSU.) GIGABYTE Z690I AORUS ULTRA LITE DDR4 (rev. 1.0) LGA 1700 Intel Z690 SATA 6Gb/s Mini ITX Intel Motherboard Intel Core i5-12600K - Core i5 12th Gen Alder Lake 10-Core LSI Logic Controller Card LSI00301 SAS 9207-8i 8Port Internal SAS/SATA 6Gb/s PCI Express Single Mushkin Enhanced Redline 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory SAMSUNG 980 M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.4 V-NAND MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V8V1T0B/AM (For CACHE DRIVE) CORSAIR SF750 CP-9020186-NA 750 W SFX 80 PLUS PLATINUM Drives are all Seagate 8TB IronWolf NAS. (Except the cache drive as mentioned.) Thank you again.

Hi.... So...Well, I have been using unRAID for a LONG, LONG time. My current hardware for the server is back to 2013 so I am looking to just move the 8TB drives to a new motherboard, processor, and HD controller. Thus a new, modern server. Is there anything I need to know or do beforehand? I have seen a few videos on doing it, but I had thought that the USB Thumb Drive was keyed to the CPU or something. Thus I am not sure on if this is the case or not. I am have a PRO unRAID license running the current version. I am more or less hoping to replace the Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and Drive Controller. Using the same drives I have and hoping it will just boot up. (3 8 TB data drives, 1 Parity Drive, one 1TB SSD cache drive that I want to move to NVRAM. I have the Cache Drive backed up each night and thus could restore it to the new NVAM drive is my hope.) Anyways...Anything I need to know beforehand? Thank you. David Bott

@peter_sm Thanks for the thought of modifying the actual openvpn server file you want to use. Before I tried that I took a closer look at the connection log, via your plug-in, and did see this line... Sat Oct 26 07:36:18 2019 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp,dhcp-option DNS 198.18.0.1,dhcp-option DNS 198.18.0.2,rcvbuf 493216,sndbuf 493216,explicit-exit-notify 5,comp-lzo no,route-gateway 172.21.92.1,topology subnet,ping 20,ping-restart 40,ifconfig 172.21.92.25 255.255.254.0,peer-id 0,cipher AES-256-GCM' ...so it seems that ping and ping-restart are part of it yet does not seem to solve the issue. BTW... I did also try adding the lines to the file to different settings, but after stopping and starting the OPENVPN client again, the same values showed up in the log. So it does not seems to be part of that file. So not sure where these settings are being set from as it dies not seem to be the server.ovpn files. I did happen to notice also that it reads... Sat Oct 26 07:36:17 2019 OpenVPN 2.4.6 x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on May 7 2018 Sat Oct 26 07:36:17 2019 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1c 28 May 2019, LZO 2.10 ...wondering if i does not need to be updated? (It may be current for all I know.) Otherwise the plug-in does just perfect for what I wanted. Something that puts my UnRAID internet traffic through a VPN and it does that. Even updates for docker files or plugins all use the VPN. But the issue is, once you loose internet for X amount of time, it will not redo the tunnel and your entire server does not have access to the Internet. (You can still reach it from inside the network of course.) The GUI also stops working. (Side note....At least on mine, when I choose to STOP the OpenVPN service the says Stopping but then the screen becomes empty from the UnRaid Menu bar down. You need to click on SETTINGS and the OPENVPN Client option again to go back in and see if it stopped. No biggie...but just a heads up.) But the big thing is it not coming back up. Sometimes I may not notice for days and have things stacked up to come down. If you may care to look into this, I am happy to test. If not, I understand as it has not been touched in some time but is really the open option I have found that does the server as a client in one easy to setup, understand, and use plug-in. You also mentioned "keepalive what I know is a server function" ... Just don't seem to see a setting for that anywhere. Thank you again.

@peter_sm Someone asked me via chat about this... Hey David - Have you seen this? I haven't been able to try it out - https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=8062 It is in regards to OpenVPN and reconnecting using "keepalive" and "ping-restart" options etc...From the above post... "...if the connection is already established and the tunnel goes down then openvpn will try to reconnect as long as things like 'keepalive' or 'ping-restart' are set, as well as 'persist-key' and authentication caching." So...There is a openvpnclient.cfg file located on the flash drive under /config/plugins/openvpnclinet as you know, however there are no such settings other than what is in the main setup of the plugin GUI... USER="whatever" PASS="whatever" START_ON_MOUNT="yes" PLG_EXT="no" PLG_PASSWORD="yes" OVPNCHOOSE="/boot/openvpn/dal-a04.ovpn" DISCONNECT_ON_UMOUNT="yes" So not sure how we could use "keepalive" and "ping-restart" etc as we have no setting for it to pass such options. Can you maybe look into such options as it may be all that is missing. As mention, this plugin works great...until you loose internet for X amount of time then the server no longer has internet. So we just need a way for it to check itself and this may be just the ticket. Can you be of help? Thanks

@peter_sm - Not really looking for a KILL SWITCH. Looking for something that sees the network is down and restarts it. Right now if this OPENVPN Client looses internet, everything stops. POOF. No way to know it unless you look as to why things you expect to happen are not. @almulder - Thanks...But I can't run a VM on my box and the second one reads SERVER. This is is CLINET connection.

Thank you, I will need to see if @binhex has anything that does a OpenVPN client for server. All I need is what this one did...Just let the dockers go though the VPN I have told the server to go through. (Client mode needed more or less.) Update...Does not look like it. But he does have things that have VPN built in. This one does it for all of the server.

Kind of surprised that there has been no reply. So I am guessing this plugin is not really supported any longer which is a shame it was was imple to setup and it just worked. (Unless, as I mentioned, you loose internet then it all goes down. ) I am surprised that not one has mentioned this or has not suggested a fix or work around. Is there something else that people are using to send the Docket traffic through a VPN provider? Thanks

As I mentioned, I only KNOW when I happen to notice a TV show I expected to come down has not. "hummm....Where is X show? It was on 3 nights ago." So I go and look at Sonnar and see that it was missed along with everything else from X point in time. At that point you realize nothing running on the UnRAID server can reach the internet as the Plug-in has crashed. You can make it happen. Just go unplug your router for about 15 mins. (Not sure on how much time it needs to fail though.) Then plug it back in. Your phones and computers have Internet just fine...But check the UnRAID server and see if you can reach the Internet even for plugin update or docker update checks. Nope. Nothing. Try then going into the SETTINGS/NETWORK/OPEN VPN and see if you can get to it. Usually when it happens I can't. However the default setting is to close it out if you stop the array...So if you do that, and then restart the array, it will all then just work again. (until the next time you loose internet for some reason.)

The VPN Client Plug-in GUI under SETTINGS/Network 90% of the time when it has this issue you can't get into it to stop and restart it. You need to stop the array and then start it again. (Assuming you have the setting to stop the VPN when the ARRAY is stopped.)

Nope...I am looking for this VPN Plugin to either check the connection and restart itself if there is no connection in hopes it then reconnects, if not, rinse and repeat. OR I am looking for something that I can use that would stop this VPN plugin and restart it ever X number of minutes as a "just in case" thing. When this VPN Plugin fails...it fails. No more traffic. POOF! Dead! Nadda! Nothing running on the UnRIAD server then can use the Internet until you restart or turn off the VPN. (Which sometimes you can't get into via the GUI.)

You misunderstood the post. I did not say it was not working, I was saying, as another has point out, that it can STOP working if your internet service goes down and then comes back up. If the internet goes down, this plugin seems to just stop and does not reconnect after the internet is restored.

Is this plugin supported any longer or is there another client like it that people have moved to. I love using this for it protects my dockers that are running by putting all internet traffic over the OpenVPN server of my provider. However when the internet goes down, and then comes back up, it will just outright stop working and I need to stop and start my array again. (Can't even get into the GUI of this plugin when it happens.) I usually only notice the issue has happen when I know a show should have come down and I go and look in Sonnar and sure enough there are a lot things in the waiting queue as it has no internet access. So, one of two things 1) This needs to be able to check for a good connection every X amount of time and if it does not have one, restart the connection to get it back. (Which would be preferred) Or 2) Does anyone know of a plug-in or something I can set that will just auto restart this every X minutes so at least it auto restarts and thus reconnects if it was down once a day (or whatever) so at least it will connect back and things can work again. I came here looking as it was down for 4 days!!! Thanks

Understood. I had mine on a 1TB SSD that was also used for cache just for speed. I have now moved it to a drive so I am MV'ing the backups over and then connecting TM to it and doming aback up to set it in place.

Ah...Ok, that is what I thought you meant. I was able to get to see the share, now I am working on moving my current backups to the new share and running a backup to lock it in.

Hi..."remap the share" I have never needed to map anything in the past. Or maybe I have. What are you referring to when mapping? Thanks

Oh, that would be a good reason. 😀 Ugh...Now I need to see if I can make SMB work as AFP as been. Lots and lots of reading I have done and it does not seem to really be cut and dry with many people getting it to work in different ways.

Hi ya.... Question...I have been using TM for a long time with Unraid using AFP. Why would one want to move to SMB? Speed? Just wondering. Just asking before I try to use SMB. (Seems like it can be a pain when one would think it should be easy.) Thanks!

Changed Status to Solved

Ok, I disabled piHole and made it so it would not restart. I then ran the upgrade and restarted. I seem to be good. SpeedTest does not work, but I see that is an issue and I need to upgrade python. I turned piHole back on and all is still well. Very pondering to say the least!!!!!! Thank you kindly for the thought! I would not have expected it.

Interesting....But not sure why it would have an issue with it in 6.7.X and no issue with it in 6.6.7. And it is not all of the functions. I can download updates just fine etc, but then Speed Disk, which is not a docker, does not work nor do any of the dockers. I can try disabling it and then upgrading and see what happens. Be right back.

First off.... Ha! Yes, as a docker. ????? Interesting. Where is your thought on this one?

Actually, just an FYI, unRAID never recreated a network config file. It is not in the CONFIG directory. Here is what WAS in it however on ver 6.6.7.... # Generated settings: USE_DHCP="yes" IPADDR="192.168.1.200" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" DHCP_KEEPRESOLV="no" DNS_SERVER1="192.168.1.1" DNS_SERVER2="" DNS_SERVER3="" BONDING="no" BONDING_MODE="1" BRIDGING="no" BRNAME="br0" BRSTP="yes" BRFD="0"

As I wrote above...."I have tried deleting the network config file so it would be forced to make a new one. Rebooted the server, still same issue.:"