[quote=“Steven B, post: 44546, member: 24174”]After being told by our network group that multicast was enabled on the production switches on Monday, we found out yesterday that only one of the two switches supports layer three. The ports in the labs are randomly patched into the switches, no documentation. Wire rack is locked, etc…
Ran another test this morning. 15 thin clients using production switches. Start the multicast, all systems pxe and sitting on gray screen. Multicast not starting. Go into the task list the ones in the group that are ready are patched to level three multicast. The ones that are still connecting were patched to the layer two switch. Made bets with network guys. Killed task. Created a new group with thin client members that were waiting in the first job (six computers). Started multicast, executes perfectly. I’m very lucky to have had the fog server randomly patched into the switch with layer thee capabilities. I had given up on multicast last summer.
Four years I’ve been using FOG now, always hear it from the networking group that there is nothing wrong. But they put in all into emails so now it is documented. Getting my own switches this summer.
126GB in 23 minutes is just shy of the 20 minutes (the fastest it could go), the only limitation for the multicast was the GB network cards.
Now if I can figure out the TFTP Boot errors…[/quote]
Well, that’s a big jump from where you were before.
We should be able to help with the TFTP errors. I’ll read through this thread again and update this post if I think of anything.
Just read through the thread again. Didn’t see anything about TFTP.
You’ll need to post the errors you’re seeing. A picture of them would be fine, too.