@sebastian-roth I’m not sure a video is necessary since the message loops and the full message is captured in this image but am happy to oblige if it helps.

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@sebastian-roth Greetings. I had to get the first rev of W10 images out so the 7010 image is legacy this time around. I should have time this week or next. I did look at the link and didn’t look terribly difficult. I’ll give it a crack.

FOG 1.5.0 -> 1.5.2 fixed the exit type (bug?) loop I was seeing (yaay!) but now I’m seeing a hard crash when registering or doing a compatibility check within Parallels VMs (drat!). The exact same configs and hosts worked fine on 1.5.0 earlier this AM. I’ve read about the ACPI disable methods but those seem to only be valid for registered hosts. My hosts don’t make it that far. I’ve tried multiple kernels and the behavior is the same with both 14.16.6 x64 or an older one like 14.10.10. Advice?

@sebastian-roth 0_1525813248279_bootup-no-ipv6-no-filter.pcap

I disabled IPv6 on the server and re-ran a full cap\no port filters

@sebastian-roth 0_1525808908051_bootup-no-port-filter.pcap

This is a capture with no port filter. The client and FOG server are the only 2 devices on this private subnet. It does have other communications, mainly with FOG’s ‘bandwidth.php’ and is a much bigger file in general.

@bardwood @Sebastian-Roth Just saw this… Disregard prior message.

@Sebastian-Roth @Wayne-Workman

Guys, any progress here? I’m really chalking this up to High Sierra but would be good if you guys could verify that FOG doesn’t work with High Sierra on MacBook PRO and APFS. If it does work for you and not me, I would be thrilled to troubleshoot and resolve as this would mean I don’t have to switch to a different process\package.

@Sebastian-Roth

Doing more research, I see that all major paid solutions are also struggling with High Sierra. The JAMF forums have many related threads, same with Deploy Studio. Apple’s official guidance is that they don’t want you to use monolithic imaging solutions. They want you to script deploys ala SCCM. High Sierra also included a firmware update which may explain the odd BSDP behavior.

Although FOG worked great with pre-HS Macs and I have used FOG with Sierra, has anyone from the FOG dev team actually gotten it to work with HS? If so, consider yourselves market leaders since it seems no one else has been able to consistently do this. There’s posts I’ve seen on the JAMF forums where a combo of AutoDMG, scripts, and an image repo were able to image an HS Mac but it doesn’t seem to work every time.

Also, APFS requires new images to be created regardless of imaging software used. An additional annoyance is that any Mac with an SSD is automatically converted to APFS upon HS boot.

@Sebastian-Roth

My isolated switch test made no difference. If it matters, all of our MacbookPROs are running ‘High Sierra’. This has caused them to also be incompatible with existing Deploy Studio images. Don’t know much about High Sierra but am reading that it introduces a new filesystem called APFS in lieu of HFS+. I’m not sure how much that matters for the EFI\pre-boot image environment but am also unsure what else to try.

@sebastian-roth said in MacBook(s) and FOG::

https://static.afp548.com/mactips/bootpd.html

No, it’s not that new. MBP 11,4. Whatever the cause of BOOTP not doing proper discovery, it’s unlikely to be the hardware because I’ve tried multiple MBPs and they all behave the same way. Perhaps I’m missing some options on the DHCP config or perhaps the switch is misconfigured (possible?). The managed switch is ‘owned’ by several groups internally which means there’s no owner acting as a goalie for other groups. I’ll just plug in a workgroup switch with only the FOG server and a client if you think this would be a useful test.

I’ve seen that afp548.com link when I was troubleshooting last week and generally have a good overview of how BSDP functions but am still rather novice when it comes down to nuts and bolts of BSDP.

First question, is my ISC-DHCP config sane? I only made a few changes from the FOG installer’s version of the config but the only reason I made any changes was because it wasn’t working (but works fine on Windows, definitely seems BSDP\BOOTP related.

I’ll report back with my results from my workgroup switch test.

0_1525288727046_bootup.pcap

pcap file uploaded here. There’s nothing identifiable in here (re:security) and it’s small. Dropbox wanted me to enter your email address for sharing so I figured this was a better option.

@bardwood

It’s mostly the stock FOG-supplied ISC conf file that comes with FOG’s installer but I’ve added the ‘authoritative’ directive. Working on the other piece you asked for re:tcpdump