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I updated to 1.5.4.

Can I suggest a progress bar at the downloading binaries step? Or putting them in fog’s download? My ISP is so buggy that It’s hard to tell what’s going on. I have gotten in the habit of pre wget-ing the binaries before the install so I can make sure they download.

But I digress…

I usually create a group at the all hosts screen - I check the hosts I want to add to a group then at the bottom I fill in the create new group field and hit update. When I do that, not only are the hosts I selected in the group, there are many others that I did not select. I remove them, but that’s why makes me think it’s waiting for these “phantom” hosts to come on line before the multicast session starts.

But -

When I go to the groups screen and create a new group, I can click on the new (empty) group, click on membership, then “check here to see what hosts can be added”. I select the hosts, click “add” and then in that group are only the ones I selected. I just now created a test group of 3 PC’s (from the group menu) and was able to multicast to them, however it took a really long time at the “erase the GPT/MBR…” step, long enough that I was looking for this as a possible problem. Then when I got back to the PC’s to take a screen shot the session was running. Is there something in the latest kernel that would cause that?

Anyway, I am wondering - is there a bug in creating a group from the hosts menu, or am I doing something wrong?

@george1421
I just upped the memory in/etc/php/7.1/fpm/pool.d/www.conf:

php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 256M 

OK - here’s a wrinkle - I have normally used ipxe.kkpxe because I have some realtek nics that won’t boot to ipxe.kpxe. This morning after once again testing all the possible exit choices on a lark I thought I would try ipxe.kpxe and it seemed to boot all of my machines and did allow RRRx to work on the test machine.

Is this file (ipxe.kpxe) updated from time to time? And what’s the difference between it and ipxe.kkpxe?

@jj-fullmer

So do most people create the group first, then populate it later?

And -

NOTE: 4.16.6 kernel takes a long time to erase mbr/gpt tables. Downgrading the kernel will make this go faster, but it should be noted that 4.16.6 WILL erase these things, it just takes longer than most are used to.

Well, duh - - I guess I need to start paying more attention!

@jj-fullmer Oooh - I found a bug? Cool!

I wonder if the group you created would multicast.