Hello,

 

I'm a long time UnRAID power user and have be running 5.0.5 stable under ESXi 5.5 for well over a year with zero issues.  I tried upgrading to UnRAID 6.0-beta15 and cannot get my NIC to work with it.  I'm using VM DirectPathIO + ESXi 5.5 u2e and it does bind to eth0 but there is no RX/TX traffic when I run ethtool eth0 it says the link is down.  I don't see any error messages in the /var/log/syslog keyword "tg3".  I'm using BCM5751 because they are officially supported by ESXi 5.x for VM DirectPathIO and it works just fine with UnRAID 5.0.5 but no joy with UnRAID 6.0-beta15.

 

I can quickly switch between 5.0.5 and 6.0-beta15 because I have two VM + two UnRAID keys + two USB drive.  This is obviously an issue specific to UnRAID 6.0-beta15 with the Broadcom BCM5751 NIC using tg3 drivers 3.1.37 which come with that version of UnRAID. 

 

Any suggestions or workarounds greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

Scott

Is there any chance you have another NIC in the machine, either onboard or an addon card?

 

If so, then please see the networking tip in the Upgrading to UnRAID v6, Troubleshooting section.

 

Yes, I have two identical NICs in different PCIe slots.  However, in ESXi settings both are assigned as VM DirectPathIO and I'm only added one NIC to my UnRAID 6 VM.  I only see eth0 and there is no indication in syslog that a second NIC is detected. 

Bump

Would you mind showing us the syslogs for both 5.0.5 and 6.0-beta15?  Zip them and attach.

 

I assume you've switched the network cable, to see if the other one works with the unRAID kernel.