May 10, 201214 yr Running 4.7, and since Sunday the connection to my network has been sporadic to say the least. I first noticed it while I was trying to use media companion to catalog my media collection. What would happen is after an hour or so, media companion would crash (later discovered because the server is disappearing). After that I tried watching some TV shows, as long as I don’t pause I can make it through the whole show, but if I pause a show or move, the server is booted from my network. I then have to unplug and re-plug my router in and wait for a few minutes before the server is back. I have tried changing network cables, and no change, my router (WRT-54GL running DD-WRT as a wireless bridge) is a little above room temp. I’ve troubleshot everything I could thing of, no it’s time to bring in the big guns. I apology, if I missed this topic while searching, I found some similar ones but nothing as strange as mine.
May 11, 201214 yr Author Here is the ifconfig, and ethtool the print is before the video pause (crash) the pics are from after the crash root@UNRAIDTOWER:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 04:4b:80:80:80:03 inet addr:192.168.1.66 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:27878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:34191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2229009 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:132268528 (126.1 MiB) Interrupt:26 Base address:0xc000 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:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:560 (560.0 B) TX bytes:560 (560.0 B) root@UNRAIDTOWER:~# root@UNRAIDTOWER:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: external Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Link detected: yes root@UNRAIDTOWER:~#
May 11, 201214 yr It doesn't appear that your unRaid box is the cause of the problem, at least from the info you've posted so far. Is there another computer besides your media player connected to the same physical switch? If so, try pinging the box continuously from that machine while you pause the media player. The command in a windows command prompt would be ping -t 192.168.1.66
May 11, 201214 yr Author While constantly pinging, the media player does not lose connection to the server
May 11, 201214 yr Can you give some more info on the devices in your network? There seems to be a 1Gbit NIC working at 100Mbit. Switch or cabling perhaps? [edit] Sorry, I just read about the WRT54. Is it also acting as a switch?
May 11, 201214 yr Author It's acting as a wireless bridge The router (ATT so no choice on hardware) is in the basement The PC and server are on the second floor, so the router is set up as a wireless bridge on the PC and Server are both weird to it
May 11, 201214 yr It's acting as a wireless bridge The router (ATT so no choice on hardware) is in the basement The PC and server are on the second floor, so the router is set up as a wireless bridge on the PC and Server are both weird to it Double check your setups on both the ATT Modem/router and the WRT54 and be sure that you are not running both devices as routers. You might also try turning the firewall off on the WRT54 if the ATT device has one in it. (I would assume that it does if it is acting as a router.)
May 11, 201214 yr Author Only ATT is setup as the router The dd-wrt is set up as a client bridge, with the firewall disabled
May 11, 201214 yr Only ATT is setup as the router The dd-wrt is set up as a client bridge, with the firewall disabled Are you having connection problems to the ATT router. You can check with the PC to see if you have Internet. I assume that you are using wireless because you haven't run a cable between the two floors. Several times, I have run Cat 5 from the basement to the second floor by using the cold air return duct runs. They run from the second floor clear to the basement and you can usually find one that is a straight drop down. Makes it real simple to run the cable...
May 11, 201214 yr Author The PC never loses internet just connection to the server It's a wireless bridge, the PC and server are in the same room plug into the bridge.
May 11, 201214 yr The PC never loses internet just connection to the server It's a wireless bridge, the PC and server are in the same room plug into the bridge. Do you have your unRAID server SMB (samba) (I assume that your issues are in Samba) as a Local Master?
May 11, 201214 yr He's talking about on the main page, select settings. Then in the identification section, there is a selection called: Local Master and you can select Yes or No. This is for which device on your network is the device that maintains the list of available resources. I had to change mine to Yes to get it to work, which is odd as it used to work with this set to No originally. Try setting it to Yes.
May 12, 201214 yr Author I set it to yes, and it lost connection even with nothing playing or accessing the server
May 12, 201214 yr Author Switching local master to yes, cause it to lose connection even when nothing was using the server
May 12, 201214 yr When the connection is down, what happens when you ping something from the unRaid local console? Try pinging the local PC's ip address, as well as pinging a web address like www.google.com
May 12, 201214 yr Author When pinging, after it went down It lost the first five packets but then the ping was normal, it was not able to ping google.com
May 12, 201214 yr Switching local master to yes, cause it to lose connection even when nothing was using the server What lost connection?
May 12, 201214 yr Author When I switched to local master "yes" I completely lost the unraid server form the network, I had to change it back to know via the terminal on the server itself
May 12, 201214 yr When pinging, after it went down It lost the first five packets but then the ping was normal, it was not able to ping google.com What went down? So, a local ping losses five packets and the rest succeed? Can you ping google.com from a PC? This sounds like a network issue rather than an unRAID problem. You do have a choice with the ATT router. I set a Buffalo router as the DMZ host in the ATT RG. The RG only has 2 Ethernet connections: 1 to the DVR and 1 to the Buffallo router. The Buffallo provides all of the services to the LAN and it's WAN address is the same address given to the RG WAN port. All traffic except video bound for the DVR is passed to the Buffallo.
May 12, 201214 yr Author Everything, it disappeared form the network I can ping from the server to my PC only losing five packets, I can ping google just fine from all my machines, including the server, when it's on the network I know I can use the Uverse as just a modem, the problem is, it's on the first floor everything else is on the second, and can't drill, construct or do anything, I'm a guest, not owner. So the best i can do is use my router upstairs as a client bridge, and until last week it was workign fine
May 12, 201214 yr I suggest that you temporarily colocate the server with the router. Then you can isolate the problem.
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