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  Hi, I’m writing this post because of a question. I’d like to use multicast. I register the hosts I have on my workbench, add them to a group, and start multicast. First question: unfortunately, when I register the host, it’s registered based on the MAC address. How can I register it based on the PC’s serial number? Second question: if one PC has problems, the others stop waiting for it. How can I eliminate this so that the others can continue? Also, I’d like to use multicast to connect to like 50 PCs at once. But I need to be sure that if one has problems, the others don’t stop.

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  @Tom-Elliott I really appreciate that you are putting effort into providing more frequent releases, which makes it easier for everyone to deploy new security fixes in time. Keep up the good work!

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  @88fingerslukee

  Well mate, you did a wonderfull job 🙂 The only thing that afraid me is maintenance. By not using the fog install script, you have to write your own installer, which could be hard to maintain in the future, i think.

  But to be clear, this is by far the best/cleanest work i’ve seen since a while (and i’ve seen a lot of them) :). I guess you did spent a lot of time on this. If i had found your work earlier, i would have, for sure, worked on it !

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  @Valer Thanks for the report and the writeup, that’s a good catch. You’re right about the cause. Debian 13 dropped the sysv-rc-conf package since it’s fully on systemd now, so the installer chokes trying to apt-get it. We never actually use that tool on a systemd system anyway, it only ever got called on the old non-systemd paths, so it was just dead weight on Trixie.

  I pushed a fix to working-1.6. It leaves the package off the list on Debian 13 and up, and it also strips it out of a cached .fogsettings so an in-place upgrade doesn’t drag it back in. Older Debian keeps installing it like before so nothing changes there.

  If you want to get moving before you pull the update, you can either grab the latest working-1.6 and rerun the installer, or just open /opt/fog/.fogsettings and delete sysv-rc-conf from the packages line, then run the installer again. Either one gets you past it.

  Let me know if you hit anything else on Trixie.