April 2, 201115 yr Hello, I am building my first unRAID server and hit a wall already. I am using a Biostart G41U3G motherboard with Realtek RTL8111DL LAN chip, here is the spec: http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/content.php?S_ID=515 It boots via USB into unRAID (version 4.7) and able to login. When I type 'ifconfig', I don't see any IP address assigned! I tried giving 'ethtool eth0' command, it says the following: Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes When I issue 'ethtool -i eth0', I get : driver: r8169 version: 2.3LK-NAPI firmware-version: bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 Please help. -Raj
April 2, 201115 yr Author It's working now. I did shutdown the server, edited network.cfg (USB drive\config\) - on a different computer: Disabled DHCP and gave static IP. The question is why DHCP not working? I am building another exact same server for my brother - I want to make sure DHCP works. Any thoughts/ideas? Thanks...
April 2, 201115 yr did you try restarting your router ? sometimes the dhcp server on your router might be lazy ... a few things you could look at ... no mac filtering on the router ? did you plug straight into the router or any routers/ switches/hubs in between ?
April 2, 201115 yr Author I tried restarting the router and there is no MAC filter on the router. Yes, there is a D-Link gigabit unmanaged switch in between the router and the unRAID system. I haven't tried connecting it to the router directly. Are there any known issues with having a switch in between? There are four other devices (one of them is linux based HP Mediavault) and none of them have problems getting an IP.
April 3, 201115 yr there is a guy in main who had a similar issue with same nic .... he plugged in straight in the router and it works now ... so maybe the driver for the realtek or one of settings makes a problem with another switch in between... if it is an unmanaged switch i can't think for the love of god what can be making issues ... if it is a managed switch it maybe subnet related ... double dhcp server on the network ? ... duplicate ip ?? just summing up things here ...
April 3, 201115 yr Author I got DHCP working withOUT removing the unmanaged switch in between. All I had to do is uncheck "Always broadcast" settining under 'DHCP Server settings; on my D-Link gigabit wired router (DGL-4100). Now, the tower gets the DHCP and also bringing up user the name 'tower' also works.
April 4, 201115 yr Glad you figured it out ... please rename your first port title with Resolved in the beginning
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