pinion Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 I got one of those Supermicro 4U servers from TamSolutions today and it appears everything is working except I can't get it on the network to save my life. There's 2 network ports on the MoBo and there is also an addon card with a network port. The 2 on the motherboard give me no link light and appear to probably be off. The addon gives me link lights but I have no connectivity. I don't see it's mac address showing up on the router ad I can get out from it or get in to it. Anyone else have one of these that can clue me in to what I'm doing wrong? Let me edit this and say that before I was running the server without dhcp. I tried to go into network.cfg and turn dhcp on but then I didn't get an ip at all. Of course I have a static ip now but my router doesn't seem to care. Quote Link to comment
Thornwood Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 when you go to dev directory how many en1 en2 ..... do you have. then type ifconfig en1 ..... for each enX you have. What do you get? Quote Link to comment
YanNick Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 I had to plug cable into the port farthest from the USB. The one thats closer to USB's was for the IPMI management card. Also, I have reset the IP setup through BIOS for IPMI and DHCP worked fine for the server. Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 when you go to dev directory how many en1 en2 ..... do you have. then type ifconfig en1 ..... for each enX you have. What do you get? I don't have anything for en in /dev Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 I had to plug cable into the port farthest from the USB. The one thats closer to USB's was for the IPMI management card. Also, I have reset the IP setup through BIOS for IPMI and DHCP worked fine for the server. I'm not sure what you mean by reset the IP setup through BIOS. Mine is currently on for IPMI network etc etc. So should I turn it off? Quote Link to comment
Thornwood Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Make sure that there is at lease 1 lan card active. Since you show no enX in /dev then I think you don't have any network card that can be seen by unraid. Check to make sure that in bios you have one lan that is only lan no IPMI. Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 Ok, I'm powering down now. What does it mean if I can see eth0 though on ifconfig with a hardware address? Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 Ok, I have MAC0 LAN0 and MAC1 LAN1 both set to Auto in the bios. The only other option is disabled. I also have IMPI third Lan OPROM which was set to Yes but I've set it to no. And Load Onboard LAN Option Rom which was enabled but I've tried disabling it as well with no luck. Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 And one more thing. The MAC address that's on the sticker spanning the two network ports on the motherboard has the MAC address that eth0 is reporting. Maybe unraid has a problem with H8DME-2 mobo? I doubt that though. I'm probably just not doing something right. Quote Link to comment
YanNick Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 Try to load safe BIOS settings, change boot to USB. I have cables plugged into both ethernet ports and DHCP picks it up fine. Quote Link to comment
YanNick Posted May 29, 2013 Share Posted May 29, 2013 I had to plug cable into the port farthest from the USB. The one thats closer to USB's was for the IPMI management card. Also, I have reset the IP setup through BIOS for IPMI and DHCP worked fine for the server. I'm not sure what you mean by reset the IP setup through BIOS. Mine is currently on for IPMI network etc etc. So should I turn it off? My IPMI card was setup with some funky IP address through BIOS. I went in and set up IP in my range, gateway and netmask. Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted May 29, 2013 Author Share Posted May 29, 2013 I wonder if I need to plug them both in although if it were for redundancy you'd think it would still work. I'll look into it more tomorrow night and probably have more questions. Thanks for your help you guys! Quote Link to comment
pinion Posted May 30, 2013 Author Share Posted May 30, 2013 This is working now. I got a powered switch and plugged both ports in although it seems to work with just one or the other. What didn't work is plugging one of them straight into the wall. Which is weird. But ok... Of course now I'm having a whole host of other problems http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=27648.0 Quote Link to comment
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