Problems multicasting fog on different vlans
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@Yamakazi You can specify the multicast address, but not the broadcast address I think. This seems like a routing issue, not a FOG problem, but I don’t really know enough about networking to say for sure.
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Where could i change the multicast adress? Haven’t seen it anywhere in the options.
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@Yamakazi Under Multicast settings - FOG_MULTICAST_ADDRESS default value is 0
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@Yamakazi I’m guessing you’re on FOG 1.2 then? Not on trunk? Might be worth upgrading and see if that helps.
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I’m not sure that 1.2.0 or trunk can multicast to more than one address. In 1.2.0 it uses the broadcast address of the broadcast domain the server resides in. In trunk, the same is true unless you define a custom address.
You can setup some custom multicast handling if you want, and have that traffic sent throughout your organization - but there’s no easy way to swap destination addresses easily in 1.2.0. Even with FOG Trunk it’ll be repetitive but doable.
You will need to figure out how to handle the traffic on your switches and routers.
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@Yamakazi Good finds! Check out udp-sender’s man page and you’ll see options like
--mcast-rdv-addressand--mcast-data-address. I guess you could play with those and patch your PHP files in FOG 1.2.0 to achieve this. On the other hand I think this shouldn’t be need as multicast addresses ought to be “universal” and not depend on IP addresses used in the subnets. But possibly I just don’t know enough about multicast. What I know is that we were using multicast for three different subnets (separated via VLANs!) at my old working place. Worked like a charm after I had setup the multicast routing stuff on all the switches properly. Unfortunately I can’t remember all those settings in detail as this was years ago. -
Thank you. I’m going to try to get my hands on a sever and a few routers to try this in a real environment and not a virtual one. I think this is giving me issues.
But i’m still not sure on what address fog multicasts? Is this a fixed address? or based on your current subnet? can i find it anywhere in the config files? I know the trunk version let’s you chose the multicast address but i’m having other troubles with that version + a friend of mine got this version perfectly working in his business environment so i want to atleast try to get this working.
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@Yamakazi It’s based on the fog server’s subnet, specifically the node settings in Storage Management. It uses the last address in the range, the broadcast address, by default. Again in Trunk, you’re able to change this. In 1.2.0 you cannot unless you want to do it in PHP.
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@Yamakazi It’s all explained in the man page I posted:
–mcast-rdv-address address
Uses a non-standard multicast address for the control (rendez-vous) connection.
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By default “mcast-rdv-address” is the Ethernet broadcast address if “ttl” is 1, and 224.0.0.1 otherwise. …So multicast control connection should be on address 224.0.0.1 I suspect! And then:
–mcast-data-address address
Uses the given address for multicasting the data. If not specified, the program will
automatically derive a multicast address from its own IP (by keeping the last 27 bits
of the IP and then prepending 232).Means 232.x.x.x if I don’t get that wrong.
