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How to renew DHCP on a ReadyNAS
Hi,
One of our NAS boxes started having DHCP problems a month or two ago. For some reason none of the Windows 10 computers in the office can resolve its name to an IP address anymore. The Windows 8 computer still recognises it, and all computers can resolve the identical backup NAS. Using the IP address has been the workaround so far, but I'd like to try forcing it to release and renew the lease to see if that helps.
The usual linux command seems to be
dhclient -v -r
But when I put that in, it doesn't recognise the command. ifconfig worked though.
Any suggestions for anything that might force the network adaptor to reset this sort of thing? Rebooting, setting a manual IP address, and an OS reinstall (on the NAS) hasn't helped. We also don't have access to the DHCP server as it's just part of the office complex's infrastructure.
Thanks
It appears that the ReadyNAS 314 unit in question is simply very faulty. Only months after a factory default reinstall it is having more problems than ever before. Even an OS reinstall is lucky to temporarily fix some of the issues. It also doesn't look like our supplier is particularly eligible for warranty, even if we were to risk the downtime to our data backup.
However, since our backup unit only really needs to do basic Rsync backups and (rare) SMB data transfers, I have switched the roles between the two ReadyNAS boxes. This seems to have been completely successful so far. Everything just works on the former backup NAS, and almost nothing needs to work on on the now backup.
I just hope that we'd get more reliable hardware if we purchased a rackmount next time.
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I'm not convinced that this is a dhcp problem. Maybe first check that the win10 systems and the NAS are all in the same workgroup.
ifdown eth0; ifup eth0should force a dhcp renew, though it will likely disrupt your ssh session too.
Ok, thanks. I'll check the workgroups first.
It appears that the ReadyNAS 314 unit in question is simply very faulty. Only months after a factory default reinstall it is having more problems than ever before. Even an OS reinstall is lucky to temporarily fix some of the issues. It also doesn't look like our supplier is particularly eligible for warranty, even if we were to risk the downtime to our data backup.
However, since our backup unit only really needs to do basic Rsync backups and (rare) SMB data transfers, I have switched the roles between the two ReadyNAS boxes. This seems to have been completely successful so far. Everything just works on the former backup NAS, and almost nothing needs to work on on the now backup.
I just hope that we'd get more reliable hardware if we purchased a rackmount next time.
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