Networking "Link_config FAILED -16", Can't ping anything. No MAC Address

typeronin

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Hello Proxmox Team,

My server just stopped connecting to the network today for some reason. No restarts or anything until I discovered it wasn't connected and thought a reboot would do it.

I can't ping my gateway, any other computer on the network or anything outside. Status lights on the ports and switch ports are lit up.

I use both 10GbE ports on my Gigabyte 7PESH2. One goes to the network and one is a direct 10GbE connection with my desktop.

"systemctl status network" shows the service as active (exited) with waiting for vmbr0 and vmbr1 to get ready.

"systemctl restart network" gives an error "Link_config FAILED -16"

"journalctl -xe" shows an additional error of "Could not generate persistent MAC address for enmpf01"

Help...
 
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hi,

can you post:
Code:
pveversion -v
cat /etc/network/interfaces
ethtool -i ${INTERFACE}
ip link show
 
Good morning, oguz

Sorry I have to do it this way. Local access only since network is down.

pveversion -v
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cat /etc/network/interfaces

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ethtools -i $(INTERFACE) returns "command not found"

ip link show


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And again. Anyone?

Please stop posts without any further information. This will just lead to longer answering times and wasted times for others reading it. This will not speed up anything, instead the opposite is true.
 
the enp interfaces aren't up. what happens when you try to manually get them up, like ip link set enp4s0f0 up or similar?

do you see any errors in dmesg?

ethtool -i ${INTERFACE}
i've meant like ethtool -i enp4s0f0 (for example) but it seems like ethtool isn't installed, and you have no network connection to install it either.

interfaces file looks okay..

what were you doing before the problem started happening? did you change anything on the server recently?

what about in /var/log/syslog ? can you go back to the logs and find the time when it started happening? that could reveal the cause.
 
I had the same problem and I found the solution in this forum. If my memory does not fail you need to delete or rename the file /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link. I have proxmox 5.3. Not sure if the same bug applies to you. Once I delete that file the network started correctly. Hoping this solution works for you too.
 

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