Posts tagged 'freenas'

Fixing HTTPSConnectionPool "certificate verify failed" error in FreeNAS 11.3

FreeNAS 11.x is no longer receiving package updates due to the major version update to TrueNAS 12.x. A side effect is that the CA certificates database from systems on 11.x is now outdated and contains expired CA certificates. This causes errors such as the following when attempting to create jails or update the OS: Update server could not be reached HTTPSConnectionPool(host='update-master.ixsystems.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /FreeNAS/trains.txt (Caused by...

Setting up SMB Multi-Channel between FreeNAS (or any BSD/Linux) and Windows for 20Gbps transfers

SMB Multi-Channel is a useful performance feature that distributes SMB traffic over multiple network connections, allowing it to scale across multiple network adapters, as well as multiple CPU cores through the use of receive-side scaling (RSS). It is supported and enabled in Windows 10 by default, and Samba has support for it as of version 4.4. At the time of writing, FreeNAS 11 is running smbd version 4.10.2, which of course means it supports multi-channel. Multi-channel works by making multiple TCP...