Capturing at Gigabit speeds however only Unicasting at 50Mbps
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Hi all,
I am new to FOG and am currently trying to get it setup within my workplace. If there are any troubleshooting requirements or logs you need to see, please let me know / spell it out fairly plainly.
I have currently setup my FOG server on a 1GBe network, with plans to upgrade to fibre 10GBe. My server is running on a Fedora 41 machine and I am mainly imaging Windows 11. When I am capturing images I can see that the speeds are reaching 1GBe speeds however whenever I try to deploy, using unicast, each unicast is stuck at 50Mbps.
When I say 50Mbps, I can unicast 1 machine at 50Mbps (takes around 2 hours), or I can Unicast 3 images / machines at 50Mbps (150Mbps over the switch) which still takes about 2 hours. My IT brethren in the workplace have asked me not to use multicast.
I am mostly imaging Dell Laptops with secure boot and Bitlocker turned off, so this shouldnt be the limitation.I have used iperf3 to test the connection between the windows machines and the linux server, and everything is running at close to 950Mbps. I have also run multiple speedtests on both the server and clients and all are as expected (about 500 up and down). The client machines are using i9’s and i7’s, so I don’t think it is decompression slowing things down. I have also tried to image no compression on the image and again I am limited at 50Mbps, as it was not compressed it took close to 4 hours.
This feels like a unicast limit, as if either A) FOG limits each unicast connection or B) hardware in between (such as the NIC or Ubiquiti switch) are limiting ftp / udp on the network.
Any thoughts?
Deployment
Capture Task
Server Setup
And some evidence that the server and connection can transmit at Gigabit