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I've been struggling with this for weeks. I cannot figure out what needs to happen in order for the miner to actually start mining.

The vendor has been no help, other than replacing the miner, but the problems I'm having are the exact same.

Is someone able to help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? I've set the miner up, and the miner can communicate to devices outside of my network. The credentials have been tested by the vendor. But I cannot get the mining to start.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/6e4a801f-7e5a-447b-8f30-58faa848a1b6/88305c72aadb8fdb50fe4c32892b6a31/res/7c7f88b8-f589-4441-b83b-e7b8a953e645/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/ecdee225-72d6-41b9-bec2-ffa5118f9017/52de063b6b9236d93d9d3dd1a5a97b1b/res/906bcd6d-4a8f-4091-a9a6-7c53142dbcc0/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/133d26a4-2383-4eea-b92a-2e5b9bd0f5ab/c23ce77ff5def43dd741662d1ef9be19/res/f88cf820-56be-41a0-95e6-3dd88527806d/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

The WAN port is disabled, and I'm communicating with the miner via the LAN port.

The LAN port has full access to my network and outside of my internet connection.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/19309d3d-a102-4b03-9265-be7c78cc6df7/528528c8a94f5ad70800fb1806634175/res/fff00dd7-92e2-4098-81b7-9b174d8a5e1d/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/b001ee90-1a48-42b3-a457-aa122f910bf6/4aade074817cc6cbddb45ca4e6ef4622/res/4b844adb-bf6d-4632-b2d5-03f550e13a27/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

It's configuration:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/b058a457-1fe2-45ff-91de-eb0a8c7716f3/28519fad0f0b9ca59b8ac10c67142fb4/res/15fa72a6-6e1a-4835-a64f-c555eac46996/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

I notice you have your interfaces bridged. The way my s1 is setup is I have all my ip settings on the wan port. My interfaces are also bridged, so I do not have any ip settings on the Lan port (set to dhcp client). I also notice you have 2 Lan interfaces. Is that wireless and wired? I am not using the wireless as I have seen complaints about it.

If you need I can give you screenshots of my setup once I am home.

Screenshots would be awesome.

I had the WAN ports set up, and the miner could talk outside the network just fine. But mining would never start. So I read some forums somewhere and they said the use the LAN port.

Now the LAN ports work the way they are supposed to, but still, no mining.

I'm not proud to say this, but I've been struggling at getting mining started for over 2 weeks, and I can't get anything to happen.

Not to worry. I set mine to the wrong ip range and had to factory reset. It is FUN finding that reset button.

Yea, that reset button is small. But after you've pressed it 75 times as I have, I can find it in my sleep.

I went back in an made the WAN port active via DCHP, and now the miner sees the outside network via that port.

But I still have no mining going on. I don't understand why this is being so difficult.

Ok I am home. Just for giggles, have you tried pinging stratum.btcguild.com? You can do this from the diagnostics tab. Just type it in.

definitely can ping stratum.btcguild.com.

PING stratum.btcguild.com (198.245.63.145): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 198.245.63.145: seq=0 ttl=51 time=43.022 ms
64 bytes from 198.245.63.145: seq=1 ttl=51 time=52.764 ms
64 bytes from 198.245.63.145: seq=2 ttl=51 time=50.815 ms
64 bytes from 198.245.63.145: seq=3 ttl=51 time=42.222 ms
64 bytes from 198.245.63.145: seq=4 ttl=51 time=46.121 ms

--- stratum.btcguild.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 42.222/46.988/52.764 ms

I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuBvGUT6VM8

and with the exception of his IP address, I matched it setting for setting.

the miner sees the pool. the pool sees the miner. but there is no mining going on.

I can watch the traffic (on the firewall) between the miner and the pool.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/36403901-73cb-4463-be3c-5e8a223ffa15/d231c7c1406d81a3aad6e0ab9fe965f7/res/e35fc4d9-733e-4c3e-8105-bba11b932356/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/b84389f4-ea35-45d9-aa24-156f68c858ea/f8404838e63714d99875d801ced305fe/res/abc2a7a7-deb5-4bc4-badf-4b51f2d3c521/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/c510e3b8-a082-4b43-a0a0-d48ea08dac85/70e2fb08bc5ea7b77769b475f01f8046/res/b4189898-a90b-4eaf-9f09-f2ce033addf7/skitch.png?resizeSmall&width=832

That's really weird.

Are your worker names in the correct format?(fillmywallet_1) Any password will work. The number is the actual worker. The other name is your username on btcguild.com. Also did you create the worker on your btcguild account?

Also have you tried another pool? You really need a backup pool anyway.

I sent my settings over to the support people at jonesgear, where I bought the miner. They are using my worker on one of their miners. that same exact information will not work for me.

So yes, my worker is in the right format, and yes, I created the username on btcguild.com

There is only one pool in there (listed 3 times), but on your suggestion I made another one on another site to see what would happen.

Normally I would say it's something blocking port 3333, but you can see it in your router logs. Out of curiosity can you telnet to port 3333 on stratum.btcguild.com?(from a command prompt) telnet stratum.btcguild.com 3333 You wont be able to actually connect, but you should get a black screen. You should not get an unable to connect error.

This assumes your pc is on the same subnet as your miner.(192.168.254.??)

Yes, my IP range is 192.168.254.1

iMac:~ woneal$ telnet stratum.btcguild.com 3333
Trying 198.245.63.145...
Connected to stratum.btcguild.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

Well that confirms that you have full communication. On the miner status page do you have any getworks at all?

On my Ants I ignore the LAN, set only the WAN (wide area network) to a FIXED IP (not DHCP, because you'll reach the end of your finite time DHCP lease, and you don't want to 'baby sit' your miner and manage renewing the lease).  The fixed IP needs to be within your router's range and not clash with any existing devices (if your router supports local network IP 'reservation' use that to reserve the same fixed IP for the Ant, so you if there is some new device connected while the Ant is off for some reason, it won't 'capture' the intended address of the Ant).
Ensure that your pool settings are 100% correct (or after factory reset it will bring the 'test' pools and you can check that these hash after your fixed your WAN, before you try your own pool(s)).

If you read Bitmain's AntMiner S1 Manual, and Sushi's guide, they all refer to the WAN.  Note also that the LAN and WAN cannot be on the same network segment (Bitmain's S1 manual, page 6 of 9).

Good luck

There is nothing listed on the miner status page - just "This section contains no values yet." It's been sitting empty for 3 weeks.

The lights on the actual device are flashing slowly, and the Realtime Load on the Realtime Graphs - Load page shows the average load at .04. I'm pretty sure based on that it's completely idle.

There is traffic on eth1.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/49978fdc-8528-49cd-8998-79655f210dcf/dd9f1111c61badf0f473d8f42cb16f28/deep/0/Ant-Miner.png

The WAN interface is set up just as the manual and the youtube video describes. There is no configuration on the LAN. You can see packets on the WAN interface in both directions.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/eaf5db00-618f-44f8-9626-c087cbcf81c5/86e5cbd4753ca7034e5b8c9bd246607a/deep/0/Ant-Miner.png

I can ping and traceroute from the box to both stratum.btcguild.com and api.bitcoin.cz

I don't get it.

My interface screen does not look like this. On the Lan interface it says br-lan(Bridged) But my wan interface says eth1. Assuming you are using the wired connection I would move the wan interface to eth1 in physical settings.

Ok, my updated:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/ddd32bda-b733-4d0a-a217-ca33cab35ed8/5d85abba82a6e58a604d3baf0d480f24/deep/0/Ant-Miner.png

I suppose I'll know in 10 minutes or so if it's working. BUt I have to step away.

It's been a little more than an hour. !@#@#%$%^

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/ac7bf3bb-a3ae-4e66-8202-67e32cc0d4d1/c16e4268f1e2ce472245f6f38a2ba1a5/deep/0/Ant-Miner.png

Ok on the lan interface under physical settings put a check in the bridge interfaces box and set it to eth0.

Also check the firewall settings

http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t454/phigham8pathi/firewall_zps39302fc4.jpg (http://s1060.photobucket.com/user/phigham8pathi/media/firewall_zps39302fc4.jpg.html)

LAN settings
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/09dc9b25-eb15-4786-8dcb-6163dd2f0a12/4540f7d42ecf25fdd3050a76f1623ee9/deep/0/Ant-Miner.png

Firewall settings:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/af2c85dd-c651-4725-bf7f-6b94f2e89d6c/67200edae5c87d50e8d7433bba8fd284/deep/0/Ant-Miner.png

And still nothing? I am going to start posting my settings. Let me know if you see something different. Also are you hitting save and apply when you make changes?

http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t454/phigham8pathi/interface_zpsefbf37d5.jpg (http://s1060.photobucket.com/user/phigham8pathi/media/interface_zpsefbf37d5.jpg.html)

Wan settings
http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t454/phigham8pathi/wan_zps932f11d7.jpg (http://s1060.photobucket.com/user/phigham8pathi/media/wan_zps932f11d7.jpg.html)

Looking at my working Antminer settings
https://i.imgur.com/y4HTVaL.png

https://i.imgur.com/ZI47Sv8.png

https://i.imgur.com/pQcipHg.png

https://i.imgur.com/wBfUwtc.png

I hope that this helps.  Looks like the main differences are:
1) Use WAN not LAN
2) Don't bridge WAN with LAN

Cheers

I appreciate the help, but what I've got is not a networking problem. The miner is talking to the pools. It's just not mining.

How do I know it's talking to the pools? Because it's in the log files of both the miner and the firewall.

Network   Protocol   Source   Destination   Transfer
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.111:137   192.168.254.255:137   7.47 MB (100453 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.111:17500   255.255.255.255:17500   3.55 MB (14105 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.11:17500   192.168.254.255:17500   1.08 MB (2107 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.11:17500   255.255.255.255:17500   1.08 MB (2107 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.111:17500   192.168.254.255:17500   727.29 KB (2821 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.11:62414   192.168.254.200:80   80.51 KB (740 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.200:60477   ec2-54-195-36-180.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8332   3.87 KB (13 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.200:40196   stratum.btcguild.com:3333   2.24 KB (16 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.200:40198   stratum.btcguild.com:3333   2.24 KB (16 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.200:40200   stratum.btcguild.com:3333   1.19 KB (12 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.200:40201   stratum.btcguild.com:3333   1018.00 B (10 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.200:60666   ec2-54-225-68-97.compute-1.amazonaws.com:3333   1018.00 B (10 Pkts.)
IPV4   TCP   192.168.254.200:40202   stratum.btcguild.com:3333   1018.00 B (10 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:17016   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   74.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:47324   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   73.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:51647   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   72.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:40278   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   71.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:41035   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   66.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:60944   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   66.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:39171   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   64.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:26529   google-public-dns-b.google.com:53   60.00 B (1 Pkts.)
IPV4   UDP   192.168.254.200:26529   google-public-dns-a.google.com:53   60.00 B (1 Pkts.)

THe problem is the miner won't start.

Does your pool detect your miner?  Are you certain that your miner credentials are 100% correct (no extra spaces or missing characters?)
Could it be something as silly as you expecting the Antminer web gui status page to 'auto refresh' - unfortunately it doesn't, you need to click again on the 'Miner Status' tab or refresh the browser page.

(or you could just try to follow my instructions, which worked on many Ants...and consider that there are many firewall rules that you might not have changed with your bridged LAN/WAN connection... or is it the issue of using a MAC?....:)

Cheers

Isn't the LAN port only for the two ASIC boards to communicate with each other? 

No, the connection to the ASIC boards is sort of a USB one (checkout the System Log, it has entries such as "bitmain 1-1.1:1.0: USB Bitmain asic device now attached to USB Bitmain asic-0". 
The LAN/WAN interfaces exist because the controller is a TP-link router board (TP-Link TL-WR743N/ND).  In our application there is no real need for dual ports, especially as we have a single physical connector.

Cheers

Ok, I found the problem. I do appreciate everyones help!

It was an upstream router doing intrusion prevention, specifically denying bitcoin transactions.

Great that you got it going.
Happy hashing!