One of my machines (specifically a 1070 eight card rig) keeps having an intermittent issue where AwesomeMiner says "interface offline" but the machine is still working fine. I uninstalled and re-installed the remote agent and the problem keeps occuring.
Any ideas?
No firewall / anti-virus / etc running. Windows 10 ver 2004.
I have three machines and only this one is having this particular issue.
Thanks!
Thanks for your question. "Interface offline" indicates one of the following:
1) The mining software you are running isn't responding with any monitoring information when requested by Awesome Miner. If this is the case, it's some bug in the mining software that cause the monitoring interface (API) to stop working
2) Awesome Miner do receive the monitoring information from the mining software, but Awesome Miner do something wrong and fail to process and display this information.
When this problem happens, can you please select the miner and send me the API report via PM? You can generate the API report via the toolbar: Tools -> API Report. With this API Report I can verify if the mining software is responding with any monitoring details. Thanks!
Any updates from the reports that I had sent you?
You say 2 sites back that the firewall was on and that was the problem. Please deactivate it. Or should i quote your own answer? Check IP´s in your network, sometimes my smartphone take the same ip as one of my rigs. Distance between Awesomeminer MainPC and the Rig?
Wow! Great advice!
I did. I even stated that I did. So sure... quote my answer please.
Here... allow me.
BUT! I did notice that the Windows Defender firewall did somehow get switched on.
Must've happened after an update somehow. I deactivated it and will follow up.
And following up I did... by PM. Not to you though. Sorry, I wasn't aware that I should have sent you a PM as well.
BTW I have static IP addresses on ALL devices on my network with my mining rigs. Everything is MANUALLY set.
I have 10.0.0.1, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.2.1 as networks. (Techinically I also have 192.168.5.1 as a backup LTE data connection as a failover connection to my primary router but I'm not counting that.) But all of my rigs have static IP addresses.
192.168.2.1 for my FIVE personal computers are ALSO manually set. To include network printers. The only devices that IP is assigned by DHCP is IoT and that is on a totally seperate network. So my garage door can't conflict
So... it's not a IP conflict. It's not a firewall. Out of the 42 (yes 42) devices on my home network (not including VPN connected devices) I've NEVER had an IP conflict with this configuration. Everything is it's only private network. IoT devices are seperate from my mining machines for example. All of this is for security reasons.
Distance between AwesomeMiner PC and rig??? What does that have to do with anything? Okay... I'll indulge you with an honest answer. Ready? About 2 feet. Seriously. It's all in a 4x4 tent in a 42U server rack. Machines 1 and 2 are in 4U Rosewill cases. Other machines are open frame.
BUT... the mining rigs are connected to an unmanaged switch which is connected to a managed switch with VLAN which is connected to a 10Gb unmanaged switch. So when you mean "distance" you don't mean literal distance because that makes no sense. Either way, I'm not a n00b when it comes to networking and placement of mining rigs. Please don't treat me as such. I've been using AwesomeMiner since April 2018 and the problem with the "Interface Offline" just started so it's nothing to do with "distance" or placement.
So... in conclusion it's not an IP conflict or firewall. I noticed that the firewall did somehow activate but even after deactivating everything I still had the same issue.
The only thing that I can think of is an issue with the Remote agent, the OS itself or maybe even the CAT5e cable that I'm using.
I've attempted to move the CAT5e cable to another switch but that didn't help.