second NIC does not work at startup

[drnicolas]

I intend to use a second NIC for a direct connection to my ESXi-box

My NAS4Free-machine has one INtel-NIC (PCI-E card) and an onboard-NIC might be a Realtek

The Intel-NIC has 192.168.1.252/24 and an MTU of 6000.

The second NIC has 10.0.0.1/24 and also MTU of 6000.
Nevertheless after reboot I get the following output from ifconfig :

• login as: root
  root@192.168.1.252's password:
  Last login: Sat Jul 23 18:10:06 2016
  Welcome to NAS4Free!
  hp-nas: ~# ifconfig
  em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
  options=4319b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO>
  ether 68:05:ca:1a:4b:81
  inet 192.168.1.252 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
  nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
  media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
  status: active
  bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
  options=c219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
  ether 28:92:4a:32:03:e7
  nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
  media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,master>)
  status: active
  lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
  options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
  inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
  inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
  inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
  nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
  hp-nas: ~# ifconfig bge0 up
  hp-nas: ~# ifconfig bge0 10.0.0.1
  hp-nas: ~# ifconfig
  em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
  options=4319b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO>
  ether 68:05:ca:1a:4b:81
  inet 192.168.1.252 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
  nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
  media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
  status: active
  bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
  options=c219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
  ether 28:92:4a:32:03:e7
  inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
  nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
  media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,master>)
  status: active
  lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
  options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
  inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
  inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
  inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
  nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
  hp-nas: ~#

FOr me, it look as the settings for NIC2 are ignored including IP and MTU-setting.
No wonder, pings from 10.0.0.2 fail.

Doing a ifconfig bge0 10.0.0.1/24 brings NIC2 to work, but after reboot anything is bad again.
Also iSCSI fails due to the wrong settings and I cannot restart it.

What can I do ?

[Jack Foobar]

You have to configure this through the web interface, not command line. You didn't specify your install, but it sounds like it's embedded, which means without the gui you are basically making changes to a live usb stick. Which means you ain't changing nothing.

[drnicolas]

I am not sure which version I have. I think it's embedded

NAS4Free boots froom an USB-Stick, but it's fixed to the NAS-Bx.

Where can I see which version I use ?

Of course, I tried first with the GUI; it seems to forget the settings