Hi all, it's been a REALLY long time, glad to see you're all still here.  My unRAID has been mostly inactive, but I fire it up from time to time and it's always been dependable.  I had it up and running a couple months ago with no problems, but tried to boot it up today and it appears it's not being seen by my router or vice versa.  I'm still on 4.7 and am including the syslog.  I plugged it directly into my macbook pro and they didn't see each other either.  Any ideas?

unRAID_syslog_1:4:15.txt

Jan  4 19:58:51 unRAID ifplugd(eth0)[1422]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing.

Jan  4 19:58:51 unRAID kernel: forcedeth 0000:00:0f.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X

Jan  4 19:58:51 unRAID kernel: eth0: no link during initialization.

Jan  4 19:58:51 unRAID ifplugd(eth0)[1422]: Using interface eth0/00:1E:8C:B7:F2:6C with driver <forcedeth> (version: 0.64)

Jan  4 19:58:51 unRAID ifplugd(eth0)[1422]: Using detection mode: SIOCETHTOOL

Jan  4 19:58:51 unRAID ifplugd(eth0)[1422]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected.

 

check your network cable

 

 

 

Link beat is a signal generated by ports on ethernet hubs and switches; it allows your network card to detect/negotiate the speed of the connection and to verify that the connection is healthy. If the card cannot detect the beat, it assumes the connection is faulty and retries.

 

    Test your cable to see if it is functioning (or try a new cable).

    Try connecting a different box to the same switch using the same cable.

 

This may help you identify the point of failure.