Truenas Scale - How to set up a network Bridge

Just wanted to show every how to set up a Bridge in Truenas Scale, never actually seen a video on it so figured it better to show one myself,

0:00 Intro
1:50 Getting Started
4:10 How to Set up Bridge
6:58 Troubleshooting
7:55 Thanks for Watching

#Truenas #Scale #Bridge #Nas

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[CubsCapo]

I spent 2 days straight trying to troubleshoot VM errors and you just solved it in 3 minutes. THANK YOU! Side note, my truenas wouldn’t let me remove the ipv4 from my Ethernet controller since my applications were using it and application settings wouldn’t let me remove, thankfully my system has a 2.5gb pcie nic I primarily use and a 1gb nic on the mb. I temporarily plugged in a 2nd Ethernet cable to the 1gb nic and then moved applications to that and it finally let me set up the bridge. Afterwards I moved applications to the nic and now everything works as intended and I only need Ethernet on my 2.5gb connection.

[tkcdac]

That last comment about removing the interface from the VM REALLY helped me so much. Thank you!

[djfriz]

This should be linked from the truenas forum. I searched for days before I found your video. Thanks!

[shahrokhghaderi]

This saved me two days of headaches. Thanks a lot.

[AndreasA.S.]

it just worked, good tut, no fluff.
i think it was all down to removing the ip from the main nic, and giving it to the br0, read that someplace, didint understand what vague comment someone made, this flat out is what tehy ment, and you showed me how to get both the VM and host to talk it out.
you will be a citation in the web blog of setting up my NAS, and the pain i have had with it

[firebladejohnny]

Saved my bacon with ths instruction after changing HW. I at to remove bridge to get access to my GUI. Initially, I re-added my bridge and could access GUI again. But these instructions, it worked. Cheers! I had slight difference at end (22.12.2). After entering fixed IP in bridge, I clicked Test, relogged into GUI and at too press test again, then save.

[gabrielg]

Thank you! you saved my day. It was quite annoying to find a straightforward tutorial about that.

[sytem]

LOVE YOU! thanks! spent 1 hours trying to have vm mount NFS... well no guide on bridge.. stuck.. but you published this video you saved me today!

[marshall]

I'll echo all of these comments - THANK YOU! This is exactly what I needed. I also needed the troubleshooting step at the tail end as I have a Windows 10 VM setup already. You are a true gentleman and scholar, I'm sure your office smells of books and rich mahogany.

[moldysponge]

This is actually a really well done tutorial. Steps are clear.

[EpicGamingNL]

Thank you, I had to turn of my virtual machine for it to work, thank you for your troubleshooting help!

[tetsujinXLIV]

This video saved me so much! Couldn't figure it out until I found this THANK YOU!! I copied all the settings in your global configuration and did the static routes with my own static IP. Thank you!

[nicpierce]

THANK YOU!!! This makes VMs on this platform worthwhile for me... finally.

[ocsahc]

Perfect! One well regarded YouTuber said this was impossible in UI and had me poking around in the TrueNAS CLI with no success. Thanks for showing me the way. I was beginning to think TrueNAS had something against my old-ish motherboard's NIC.

[giorgiobaseggio]

And another thank you from Italy, I always laugh at the forums... you ask something and the reply is read the manual... i know that sometimes people don't RTFM... but guys... 'come on... do you think that i prefer to write a post than to read an instruction manual? 80% of the time the solution is for a slightly different version of the OS that changed everything... the other 20% people spend more time giving complicated answer just for the sake to read ... oh my god I'm not as smart as you... thank you my saviour!!.... F it, i fyou want to help... than help... if don't don't waste internet space... 3 minutes video, clear simple and effective. again thank you.

[romayojr]

This didn't work for me in the web GUI (i heard it was a bug for some) but it worked for me in the Truenas Scale console. Regardless thank you for pointing me in the right direction on how to setup a network bridge. Cheers mate!

[marcq]

Thank you very much. I have been struggling to get this working following so many posts on Truenas community forum where none of what I raad was successful.
Your clear presentation worked straight away.
If that is OK with you, I am putting this video's URL in some of the conversation on Truenas community forum.
Thanks again.

[cheplays]

You just saved my bacon man. That last bit at the end of your tutorial is really important too, because I got stuck there and had to use a workaround where you set the test time to 0 seconds then reboot the host manually for the settings to stick. You still have to go in on each of your VMs and change the device in the NIC to the bridge however, so your advice is better.

[XxxGuitarMadnessxxX]

You, my friend, are God sent lol

The only thing I explicitly had to do differently was set up the gateway and nameserver after creating the bridge (something you already had in place) since I was originally using DHCP on the interface and not an explicit IP.

Anyways, you saved me from a headache I was having with this, so thank you!

[iambuschi]

Thank you sooo much for this.. I am now pullling my hair out for hours literally.. I couldn't figure our why it kept running into revert after 60s.. THANKS!