Can not deploy using multicast - read image_hdr block_size error

[george1421]

@rurap Your setup can work, its just a bit strange to use the FOG server as a router and an imaging solution. As Sebastian said this is an advanced setup. I personally could make it work but I’ve worked with linux and internetworking for almost 20 years… man I’m old…

Anyway, we need to understand your current configuration. Do what I suggested about capturing what udp-send is binding to. You have an advantage that your imaging network is isolated and on a single switch.

Also in regards to the imaging network switch what is that switch model and manufacturer. Some switches need certain settings turned on for multicasting to work correctly.

[rurap]

@george1421

Thank you for your response. I don’t know why but I thought all the time that FOG should be installed on the server / router behind NAT. It didn’t occur to me that it could be a normal host on the network. I don’t need Fog working as a router and image server. Now I see that it makes no sense. So I’ll try to install it on a separate host computer and see what happens.

My switch is TP-LINK TL-SF1024. So it’s not an advanced device. But if I can run FOG on it, I’ll talk to my boss about something better.

Thanks to everyone for the answers, I will let you know if it works.

[rurap]

Hi again.
Now I have one network interface - the FOG server plugged in the switch. Switch is plugged into hardware dhcp so I used dnsmasq from here and then soluion from here

in both cases I get something like this:

[Sebastian Roth]

@rurap Please search our wiki for TFTP troubleshoting und follow the instructions to test the TFTP stuff.

[george1421]

@rurap Please post the content of your ltsp.conf file.

[rurap]

@george1421

This is from Ubuntu server 18.1 and dnsmasq 2.9 verssion:

# Don't function as a DNS server:
port=0

# Log lots of extra information about DHCP transactions.
log-dhcp

# Set the root directory for files available via FTP.
tftp-root=/tftpboot

# The boot filename, Server name, Server Ip Address
dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,,192.168.25.117

# Disable re-use of the DHCP servername and filename fields as extra
# option space. That's to avoid confusing some old or broken DHCP clients.
dhcp-no-override

# inspect the vendor class string and match the text to set the tag
dhcp-vendorclass=BIOS,PXEClient:Arch:00000
dhcp-vendorclass=UEFI32,PXEClient:Arch:00006
dhcp-vendorclass=UEFI,PXEClient:Arch:00007
dhcp-vendorclass=UEFI64,PXEClient:Arch:00009

# Set the boot file name based on the matching tag from the vendor class (above)
dhcp-boot=net:UEFI32,i386-efi/ipxe.efi,,192.168.25.117
dhcp-boot=net:UEFI,ipxe.efi,,192.168.25.117
dhcp-boot=net:UEFI64,ipxe.efi,,192.168.25.117

# PXE menu.  The first part is the text displayed to the user.  The second is the timeout, in seconds.
pxe-prompt="Booting FOG Client", 1

# The known types are x86PC, PC98, IA64_EFI, Alpha, Arc_x86,
# Intel_Lean_Client, IA32_EFI, BC_EFI, Xscale_EFI and X86-64_EFI
# This option is first and will be the default if there is no input from the user.
pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot to FOG", undionly.kpxe
pxe-service=X86-64_EFI, "Boot to FOG UEFI", ipxe.efi
pxe-service=BC_EFI, "Boot to FOG UEFI PXE-BC", ipxe.efi

dhcp-range=192.168.25.117,proxy

And this one is from Ubuntu 16.04, dnsmasq 2.5 :

# Don't function as a DNS server:
port=0

# Log lots of extra information about DHCP transactions.
log-dhcp

# Dnsmasq can also function as a TFTP server. You may uninstall
# tftpd-hpa if you like, and uncomment the next line:
# enable-tftp

# Set the root directory for files available via FTP.
tftp-root=/tftpboot

# The boot filename, Server name, Server Ip Address
dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,,192.168.25.137

# rootpath option, for NFS
#dhcp-option=17,/images

# kill multicast
#dhcp-option=vendor:PXEClient,6,2b

# Disable re-use of the DHCP servername and filename fields as extra
# option space. That's to avoid confusing some old or broken DHCP clients.
dhcp-no-override

# PXE menu.  The first part is the text displayed to the user.  The second is the timeout, in seconds.
pxe-prompt="Press F8 for boot menu", 3

# The known types are x86PC, PC98, IA64_EFI, Alpha, Arc_x86,
# Intel_Lean_Client, IA32_EFI, BC_EFI, Xscale_EFI and X86-64_EFI
# This option is first and will be the default if there is no input from the user.
pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot from network", undionly

# A boot service type of 0 is special, and will abort the
# net boot procedure and continue booting from local media.
#pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot from local hard disk", 0

# If an integer boot service type, rather than a basename is given, then the
# PXE client will search for a suitable boot service for that type on the
# network. This search may be done by multicast or broadcast, or direct to a
# server if its IP address is provided.
# pxe-service=x86PC, "Install windows from RIS server", 1

# This range(s) is for the public interface, where dnsmasq functions
# as a proxy DHCP server providing boot information but no IP leases.
# Any ip in the subnet will do, so you may just put your server NIC ip here.
# Since dnsmasq is not providing true DHCP services, you do not want it
# handing out IP addresses.  Just put your servers IP address for the interface
# that is connected to the network on which the FOG clients exist.
# If this setting is incorrect, the dnsmasq may not start, rendering
# your proxyDHCP ineffective.
dhcp-range=192.168.25.137,proxy

# This range(s) is for the private network on 2-NIC servers,
# where dnsmasq functions as a normal DHCP server, providing IP leases.
# dhcp-range=192.168.0.20,192.168.0.250,8h

# For static client IPs, and only for the private subnets,
# you may put entries like this:
# dhcp-host=00:20:e0:3b:13:af,10.160.31.111,client111,infinite```

[george1421]

@rurap The 16.04 version will not dynamiclly support uefi and bios the 18.1 will. Now certain firmware needs an additional kick to get it to boot.

In this section add in the fog server’s IP address.

pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot to FOG", undionly.kpxe
pxe-service=X86-64_EFI, "Boot to FOG UEFI", ipxe.efi
pxe-service=BC_EFI, "Boot to FOG UEFI PXE-BC", ipxe.efi

change it to

pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot to FOG", undionly.kpxe,192.168.25.117
pxe-service=X86-64_EFI, "Boot to FOG UEFI", ipxe.efi,192.168.25.117
pxe-service=BC_EFI, "Boot to FOG UEFI PXE-BC", ipxe.efi,192.168.25.117

Then restart dnsmasq

[george1421]

@rurap The more I look at your picture the more I think it should be working. (I can see that its not) but the auto select says “Booting to FOG” so that means its getting and processing this line:

pxe-service=X86PC, "Boot to FOG", undionly.kpxe

We can see in the picture the boot server IP is 192.168.25.117, so we know its processing this line.

dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,,192.168.25.117

It should have everything it needs to boot.

We may need to grab a packet capture to see what the client is objecting to.

[rurap]

@george1421
your suggestion did not work. I looked for TFTP troubleshoting like @Sebastian-Roth says and used the command:

tftp -v x.x.x.x -m binary -c get undionly.kpxe

and i have got nothing.
I searched the system a bit and found something like this:
this is my tftp-hpa configuration file

# /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

TFTP_USERNAME="tftp"
TFTP_DIRECTORY="/var/lib/tftpboot"
TFTP_ADDRESS=":69"
TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure"

there are no files in this directory, so where is the undionly.kpxe?

[george1421]

@rurap Please check to see if the files are in /tftpboot directory. It sounds like the tftp service didn’t get configured properly for fog to function.

As I said dnsmasq should have been working, with that final change (which you will probably want to remove now) if it didn’t work then we would have focused on the tftp server. So you did good moving forward to debug.

So if the files are in /tftpboot change the file path in the tftp config file to match then restart the tftpd service.

[rurap]

@george1421

There is no / tftpboot directory.

I install everything again, I have no idea what happened to this catalog. I could have sworn that this catalog was yesterday.

[george1421]

@rurap If you simply rerun the fog installer it will recreate these files in the proper location.

Also you can search the entire disk for these files with sudo find / -name undionly.kpxe

[rurap]

@george1421

YES, It’s works !!! Such a simple misteake, thx for patience and everything

I was looking for this file, it wasn’t there, I reinstalled FOG and magic happend ;]

Now I will be testing multicast !!! Keep your fingers crossed, i will let you know

[rurap]

@george1421

Multicast is working, but …

First I used my old switch TP-LINK TL-SF1024 and it’s faild. Two PCs restored at a rate of 150MB/min,

Second time I used LinkSys LGS308, 8 x 1Gb ports. I start to restore 2 other PC and only one turn on from network, second i turn on by my self but the multicast session starting, and both PC restore at rate of 10GB/mmin. Then I connect third PC to the switch and strat multisession once again one PC turn on but second and third i have to turn on. Again multicast worked very well (10GB/min at each PC)

Do you have an idea why only one PC wake on LAN?
Whether the old switch may not support multicast?

[george1421]

@rurap Some small/older switches don’t have the internal bandwidth capable to send out multicast streams to all switches. On your tp-link switch, if it has a management interface see if it has an option for igmp snooping or anything regarding to multicasting and sparse mode or dense mode. You may just want to shop on ebay for older enterprise switches from HP or Cisco.

As for wake on LAN, that is a feature that needs to be enabled in the computer’s firmware to support WOL. I’m sure the FOG server is sending out the WOL packet, the computer has to be configured to accept it.

[rurap]

@george1421

thank you george, the current switch is unmanaged, it’s a simple switch. There is not much in the specification of the switch, so I bet that switch is the problem.
All PCs are the same and support WOL and on the old switch they all turn on, but I will check it, maybe one of the students has changed something in the BIOS