February 3, 201412 yr Hi, I am running 5.0.5 on a TYAN K8SD motherboard that has 3 NICs. A Broadcom BCM5704C dual-channel GigabitE with 2 Two RJ-45 LAN connectors with LEDs and a Intel 82551QM 10/100 with its own RJ45 jack. I can get the 10/100 to work and can access the Tower but would like to get the speed up to Gigabit using the Broadcom ports. It seems to recognize the Broadcom gigabit Ethernet at boot but they dont work. When I move the Ethernet network cable from the 10/100 port to the Gigabit port nothing happens except the syslog reports I have lost the network connection. I check the ports with ifconfig and nothing changes. I am trying to learn this system and have spent hours reading posts on t3g, etc.. but I am missing something. Anyone have any ideas? I am attaching the syslog from when I booted the unraid server - at the end you'll see the NIC Link is down error - I moved the cable to the eth1 or eth2 - nothing reported - then the you'll see Link back up on eth0 when I moved the cable back. syslog-2014-02-03.txt
February 3, 201412 yr Disable the 10/100 port either in BIOS or with a jumper, whichever applies to your board. Unraid currently uses the first detected port, with no quick and easy way of switching.
February 3, 201412 yr My MB has two gigabit ports, is there anyway to get Unraid to recognize both, possibly using one for VM's?
February 3, 201412 yr My MB has two gigabit ports, is there anyway to get Unraid to recognize both, possibly using one for VM's? Yes
February 3, 201412 yr Author Disable the 10/100 port either in BIOS or with a jumper, whichever applies to your board. Unraid currently uses the first detected port, with no quick and easy way of switching. Hey, thanks for the quick response! I tried that but it just removed the 10/100. The two broadcoms are there as eth0 and eth1 but they do not acquire ip address
February 3, 201412 yr Hey, thanks for the quick response! I tried that but it just removed the 10/100. The two broadcoms are there as eth0 and eth1 but they do not acquire ip address I had the same issue when I started testing unRAID. I have multiple interfaces on my MB with eth0 not being the one physically connected to the network. After some digging found you could set the interface to use in the config\network.cfg file (/boot/config/network.cfg if on the running system) by adding "IFNAME=eth1" to the first line. Replacing eth1 with the interface you want to use. Once I did that the correct network interface came up on start up.
February 5, 201412 yr Author Thanks for the feedback. However, I had read on many posts that people were having all sorts of trouble with these Broadcoms even in the Freenas environments. So I threw in a Tenda gigabit Ethernet card I had, disabled the internal NICs and viola - up a running. As this was a move of disks from the test PC to the new hardware when I moved everything over I increased the size of my parity drive. So I am still waiting for the parity build to finish. When it does I will go back to trying to get the Broadcoms to work. Not sure why the Broadcoms are such a pain for folks - in some posts people were saying even after they got them to work they were flaky and would drop out if they were pushed hard. Honestly, I don't need that headache so I might just stay with the Tenda card. Just a thought - there should be a section on this forum where the topics are the names of motherboards, components, etc.. and then people can post their experiences with that hardware in that topic - or at least cross link it to posts in here or over at Freenas. I was finding snippets of info all over the place - having one place would help IMHO.
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