How to connect DAC cable directly between FreeNAS and XCP-NG?

runevee · October 6, 2020, 8:46am

Hi,

I would like to directly connect my XCP-NG and my Freenas with a DAC cable, but I don’t know how?

How should I set up Freenas and XCP-NG (XEN Orchestra)? Is this what is called a static route?

Sorry for the noob question.

Thanks in advance.

LTS_Tom · October 6, 2020, 9:05am

To connect them directly via any type of network interface you will need to set them each to have a static IP in the same subnet and that subnet should not overlap with any other existing subnet and they should not have gateways on their direct subnet.

runevee · October 6, 2020, 10:30am

Thanks for your quick reply. I will look into it.

Thanks.

runevee · January 23, 2021, 9:15pm

I have tried to do this however I can’t get a connection between the two machines. I have connected the two machines directly with a ethernet cable. Provided both machines with a static ip address.

Freenas - 192.168.99.20/24 (bxe2)
Debian VM - 192.168.99.10/24 (eth1)

When I try to ping freenas from my Debian VM I get the following output:
~$ ping -I 192.168.99.20 192.168.99.10
PING 192.168.99.10 (192.168.99.10) from 192.168.99.20 : 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.99.20 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

My Freenas is running on a Dell r720XD with a the following network configurations

On my Debian VM running on XCP-NG the network configuration is as follow:

The Debian VM has both network interfaces added to the VM:

I can’t figure out what i’m doing wrong here… any help is highly appreciated.

LTS_Tom · January 24, 2021, 10:12am

You say that the Debian VM is connected to eth1 with this address

but your screen shot shows it connected to “Pool wide network associated with eth3”

runevee · January 24, 2021, 5:37pm

Oh my, you’re right. I don’t get how I missed that. But thanks a million!