I bought a motherboard where the on board LAN did not play nice with Unraid so I bought an addon LAN board but it does not to play nice either.

Here is the results from ifconfig:

 

root@Tower3:~# ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:21:ab:59:ca

          inet addr:192.168.1.12  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

        RX packets:147574040 errors:11 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:6

          TX packets:82278459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:1625180321 (1.5 GiB)  TX bytes:2791842510 (2.6 GiB)

 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:369 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:369 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:31470 (30.7 KiB)  TX bytes:31470 (30.7 KiB)

 

I see errors that I do not see on my other 2 towers.

I want to get this fixed since it seems to respond slow when I access it.

 

What addon card would be the best to use with unraid. I am using 4.7

 

 

Thanks

Intel cards work well. Have you tried a new cable?

I believe this is board that is in the server now:

 

Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter, PCI (PWLA8391GTBLK) - OEM

 

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1048_1052&item_id=020294

 

I have replaced the cables - no change.

I believe this is board that is in the server now:

 

Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter, PCI (PWLA8391GTBLK) - OEM

 

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1048_1052&item_id=020294

 

I have replaced the cables - no change.

Did you make the LAN cable?  Is it a cat5e or Cat6 cable?  (cat5 is NOT enough, and cat 3 will never do)

 

If you made the cabling yourself, did you wire the ends properly.  (There are two standards, the telephone one, and the LAN one) My crimping tool has the telephone color scheme in its lid,.  That is the WRONG way to wire it for LAN usage.  The wrong wiring will result in errors as you are experiencing.

 

Did you try a different router/switch?  It might be the router port is the issue, not the unRAID end.

 

Joe L.

I have used 3 different cat5 cables. No difference.

 

I use cat5 cables for everything and the only one that has an issue is tower3. The other 2 towers work great and are very fast.

I will try a different port on the gigabit switch and see if that is the issue. I doubt it but I will see.

 

I found a site that talked about this and they recommended doing the following:

 

Add this line to the /etc/sysctl.conf file

 

net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0

 

I really do not understand what it does but it seems to help.

Does this make sense?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option

 

Myk