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[FreeBSD] Lost networking after reboot

Posted November 16, 2020 95 views
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So I was going to do update a droplet from FreeBSD 12.1 to 12.2. As a precaution, I shut down the droplet first to do an offline snapshot. Upon rebooting the droplet, I no longer have any network. vtnet0 is “active” but doesn’t have an IP4 address, certainly not the one that DO says is assigned to the droplet. I can’t ping the IP from the outside, nor can I ping anything (8.8.8.8, etc) from inside the droplet.

It’s important to note that I have yet to make any changes at this point. All that has happened was the reboot and snapshot.

I found old posts referencing a /etc/rc.digitalocean.d directory with the network .conf file symlink but I don’t have such a directory. But I don’t know if this is current info as the posts were 4 years old.

Any thoughts?

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totalAldo November 16, 2020

You can hardcode the IP address information in /etc/rc.conf to confirm connectivity and then troubleshoot digital ocean’s dynamic ip allocation.

Pull up the networking information from DigitalOcean Website/Droplets/Droplet name/Networking.
There you will see, Public IPV4 Address, Public Gateway, and Subnet Mask

in /etc/rc.conf set:
defaultrouter=“[ip address of gateway]”
ifconfig_vtnet0=“inet [ip address] net mask [subnet mask]”

reboot or run /etc/netstart restart

If that works, create a new FreeBSD 12.2 droplet and take a look at its config. You can copy these files:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/digitalocean

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/digitaloceanpre

and make sure that /etc/rc.conf
digitaloceanpre=“YES”
digitalocean=“YES”
cloudinit_enable=“YES”

Finally, if still not working, check the default packages in the new droplet with:
pkg info

and make sure those exist in your existing droplet.

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  • sremick November 16, 2020

    Thank you. I had gotten partway into that on my own already but had been trying “service netif restart” instead of “/etc/netstart restart”. Netstart worked, and now it’s online.

    Good suggestion to create a new test FreeBSD droplet to compare to. I’ll try that next. Still leaves the open question why whatever did change, would have changed.

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    • totalAldo November 16, 2020

      Yes, I’ve only lost connectivity after uninstalling pkg jq which was required by the digital ocean scripts. If using ZFS, and can compare current setup to last snapshot.

      Good idea to take a snapshot before/after any major config changes.
      Or add /etc/ and /usr/local/etc/ to a git repo to track changes.

      Good luck in your sleuthing!

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