Monday, August 27, 2012

Reconfiguring the WD Sentinel DX4000 to use a Fixed IP Address

Like all new devices on the network, the WD Sentinel decided to be grumpy about a few things, its DCHP lease being one of them.  Every 12 hours or so, I observed the following in the server logs:


With the details from Event Viewer being consistently along the lines of:


or


After a bit of research, I stumbled across the following issue thread on the Netgear forums.  It appears that the WNDR4000 (the network device hosting the WD Sentinel) has a known issue with DHCP renewals - well, at least known to the user community, it would appear based on the age of this thread that Netgear has chosen not to fix this problem.

In attempts to bypass the problem, the WD Sentinel DX4000 was reconfigured from DHCP to a static IP address, per a discussion thread found on the Western Digital forums which led to the following set of directions from the vendor.  The update was a fairly standard TCP/IP configuration change for Windows (the DX4000 host OS), although WD uses an interesting NIC "team configuration" which I was unfamiliar with.  After following the directions and rebooting the device, it came up fine with its new static IP address.  I'll monitor the drive over the next few days and verify that this removes the network warnings from the system Event Viewer, but fairly certain this should solve the problem.

1 comment:

  1. Dang, directions leads to dead link. Should have re-written the steps within this post.

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