DSM 6.0.2 with 6 NICs - PLEASE HELP!

[peterpakos 0]

Hi,

 

I've been running DSM 5.2 on Microserver Gen8 for a while and yesterday I upgraded it to DSM 6.0.2.

 

The upgrade was pretty smooth and all worked great after that.

 

Then I decided to throw in a quad Gigabit card in (HP NC365T).

 

The card got detected OK, I can see additional 4 ports in DSM, I can change their settings etc. But they don't seem to be passing any traffic. For example, they're unable to obtain IP addresses from DHCP server. When I assign the IP address manually, I'm unable to ping from/to them. The 2 on-board Intel Gigabit NICs work great though.

 

Do I need to change any settings in the grub.cfg for all 6 NICs to work properly with Xpenology?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[shrabok 15]

Not familiar with adding NIC cards to Xpenology, but have you tried ssh to your box and using ethtool to see the state of the interfaces?

I think ethtool might provide better visibility into the settings and details of how the ports are configured.

You can also post the output here for additional assistance.

[shrabok 15]

Also, could you provide whats displayed for each additional interface in the control panel? I assume they show dhcp enabled and link connected. Do you see the mac address come up in your dhcp server requesting ip leases?

[peterpakos 0]

I ended up reinstalling DSM 6.0.2 from scratch which solved the problem for me. In the meantime I've ordered a couple of 10Gbe cards (Intel X520s) and am going to upgrade NICs at the weekend. Hopefully it will be a smooth process ;->.