Hello everyone,

 

I ma trying to install unRAID on a Cisco UCS c210 m2.  UnRAID will load to the device but none of the NICs will connect to my network.  Running the ifconfig command will show the devices, but no IP is assigned.  Additionally, the devices will show up with a (SLAVE) tag.  

 

I have tried other Intel NIC PCIe cards with the same issue appearing.  Though I can access unRAID when I installed a broadcom card from another device.  My main concern is will I be able to use the on board NICs.

 

I have included two sets of logs.  The first one is from when I was only using Intel NICs and the second is after using the Broadcom NIC.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

ufpcybercommand-diagnostics-20190824-0937.zip ufpcybercommand-syslog-20190825-0440.zip

Are the diagnostics lights on the ethernet ports (the ones in question) coming on to indicate a successful physical connection?  How many Intel ports are installed?  (I saw indications of 5 different ports in the syslog...)  

Sorry I forgot to include some information.  

 

The chassis itself has two onboard NICs and there was an additional card with four ports. When plugged in the status lights are illuminated, but the traffic would not blink at the port or the switch it was plugged into. I also configured the port with a static IP and with DHCP.  Neither configuration worked.

 

My next step was to utilize another OS to see if the issue was hardware or software.  Using VMWare 6.5 all of NICs showed up and could be addressed by my router/firewall.  After this test I switched the four port card for the dual port broadcom and was able to access the unRAID GUI.

 

I am wondering if the issue maybe related to a driver issue within unRAID?

 

Thanks

23 minutes ago, olsenwc said:

I am wondering if the issue maybe related to a driver issue within unRAID?

It is possible.  

 

What I would tempted to do is to use the Broadcom card.  Intel NIC cards are often preferred as the 'gold standard' but I don't think they are that much superior than certain of their competitors.  Especially when you have modern high-performance CPU 's.   The Intel cards were known for two things.  First, they had did most of the heavy lifting on the card whereas other manufacturers offloaded this to the CPU (could be a big plus back the day of the low power CPU's) and, second, they provide long-term driver support for most OS's. (I would also disable the on-board NIC's in the BIOS so they are NOT detected.)  

 

(DISCLOSURE:  I was an engineer back in the olden days and I became a solution driven person.  What I strove was a  solution to the basic problem what worked satisfactorily.) 

Thanks for the help.  I am with you on the solution.  Though I am considering doing passthrough for them to a freebsd firewall (oonsense or pfsense)