HP Microserver Gen8 NIC hell!

DHR · 18 Jun 2018 at 18:33

Have a G8 HP microserver and an issue that is driving me nuts.

Has anyone had issues with the 2 nic ports on the G8? I've got server 2016 installed, drivers up to date, and although the nics are up and running, I can't ping anything nor hit 8.8.8.8 or one of our local DNS servers, network is set as unrecognised.

I've tried all sorts to get it going, but it just won't have it. This is after a rebuild too?

DHR · 18 Jun 2018 at 20:39

Disabled V6 with no joy, although thinking about it I may have only done it on one nic even though only one is in use so will try that too.

Patched into a couple of different ports on some meraki switches, with different cables on a standard vlan we use like everything else.

Still the same thing. Getting to the point where I may just give up and whack another nic in it if there is room, it's really strange.

DHR · 18 Jun 2018 at 21:25

Not a bad idea will give it a go cheers.

It's rare i reach a point where I'm at a loss

DHR · 19 Jun 2018 at 16:54

Finally sorted it, thanks for all the pointers as I say was at a total loss.

Turns out there is a bug in the meraki firmware 9, means that anything we put on our users vlan won't route properly. It's been fixed in 10 but thats beta at the moment.