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    • falkoF
      falko Moderator
      last edited by

      Hi we have seperate Vlans here server, student and staff

      student and staff dhcp options 66/67 has been configured on both of these vlans pxe menu/unicasting works great, 100mb network unicast speeds of 1.25gb/min

      switches are cisco with multicasting enabled
      when trying a multicast with the same 2 pc’s that were used for unicasting the multicast speed drops to 10mb/min any ideas or tests I can run?

      server spec is
      fog 0.32 ubuntu server 11.10
      Linux 3.0.0-15-server on x86_64
      Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz, 2 cores
      2gb ram

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      • falkoF
        falko Moderator
        last edited by

        (bump) anyone have any ideas/settings to check?
        ghost multicast works and can image a suite in one hour, but fog says it will take 30+

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        • falkoF
          falko Moderator
          last edited by

          okay so I have believe I have fixed the issue after rebuilding the server a few times. I settled with ubuntu 10.04.03 in the end. During FOG install I set the mysql root password as normal

          Using Webadmin, I logged into the mysql section created a new user (fogadmin) and password, giving this account full permission. I then edited the MYSQL info in /var/www/fog/commons/config.php + /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php. to match. Multicast speed is now at 670+ mb/min.

          also I am now using the newly released kernel 3.2.4

          this week I will move the server to a gigabit port on the switch which I hope will help increase this speed, though it is still 100mb to desktop.

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          • P
            Peter Smee
            last edited by

            Cool I will try this on my network soon and let you know how it goes.

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            • F
              Fog_Rookie
              last edited by

              Falko,
              I am running into this same issue with my fog server. It seems at right around 20% my multicast speed has declined from 500Mb/min to less than 100Mb/min. I am also running Ubuntu 12.04, and would like to see if I can make it work without rolling back to 10.04.

              I am somewhat unfamiliar with this part of your post “Using Webadmin, I logged into the mysql section created a new user (fogadmin) and password, giving this account full permission. I then edited the MYSQL info in /var/www/fog/commons/config.php + /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php. to match.”

              If you can spare the time, could you elaborate a bit more about this process?

              Thanks, in advance

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              • falkoF
                falko Moderator
                last edited by

                [SIZE=11px][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333]‘Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix’[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

                you can download it [URL=‘http://www.webmin.com/download.html’]here[/URL]

                note that you can do what I said via commands but webmin is a pretty neat tool for servers without a gui

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                  chad-bisd Moderator
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                  I think slow multicast is usually do to kernel problems on the client or network misconfigurations. And the slowest multicast client will drag everyone down to their speed.

                  I can generally unicast 15 clients faster than I can multicast to them, because even with 15 clients active on a gigabit network, I’m getting 900MB/min to each client.

                  If you are sure your network is configured properly, then I’d try different kernels on the clients.


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                  • falkoF
                    falko Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Yes I must add whilst I had a good run with multicasting I now prefer to unicast.

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