Last weekend my DS1019+ decided, for some unfathomable reason, to stop working after I took it out of the closet, dusted it and put it back, and I have feelings about it. In fact, I’ve had them throughout the whole week, because it’s taken forever to get most of my home services up again. Fortunately, my home automation and a few other things are spread among my Proxmox nodes, but I had a bunch of things running on that NAS, and I wanted to document what happened because someone else might have the same issues I did and end up here. SymptomsThe machine booted up (power LED initially blinking, solid green status LED, disk activity almost immediately), but would not show up on the network. Both LAN interfaces would be up, but issued zero packets. No DHCP requests, no link-local addressing, not even replies to arping (and yes, I knew the MAC addresses of the machine, because that’s the kind of thing I keep tabs on). I plugged in my MacBook and my MiniBook X on each interface, rebooted,…
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