Posts made by Wayne Workman

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 40849, member: 7271”]I understand what needs to be changed. I’ve already added it, but I’ll admit I haven’t tested it.

If you’d be willing and report back if it’s helping.

I’ve added two parts.

First is the Multicast Address to use. If it’s set, it should specify what to use, though I’m not 100% sure if th init needs to be directed as well, which I’m guessing it may be.

Second is the Multicast Port Override. Normally FOG creates tasks and it randomly generates a new port to allow multiple sessions as needed. However the override will not use random ports and will always use the override if set.[/quote]

I’d like to try it out. Where can I find the installer?
I’ll report back on how it goes.

Also,

Just to suggest how the functionality should work, it should be in the fog configuration, via the management console. It should be added to “Multicast settings”

There should be a field in there for setting the Multicast address, however the default auto-calculated one that works for probably 99% of people should be there as default.

[quote=“Wolfbane8653, post: 40840, member: 3362”]“Latest Version” is really r2901. Or are you saying the latest [U]Release[/U][U]?[/U]

Tom is currently working on the multicast issue in the “Beta” of fog. There are multicast issues in 1.2.0 and some have been corrected in the beta.

I have to say that this ability to “Change the Multicasting Address” is not a current feature. BUT you have sparked our interest.[/quote]

I’m happy to have sparked your interest to offer a feature that allows us to change the auto-calculated multicast address, because my network administrator is NOT going to update our (over 600) switches to a standard multicast configuration… He’s said so… lol, and I don’t blame him.

So, without the ability to change the auto-calculated broadcast address to 224.0.2.224 with stream port set to 7800, I won’t be multicasting with FOG, ever.

Pretty please with sugar on top!

Thanks,
Wayne

[quote=“Wolfbane8653, post: 40833, member: 3362”]New page. I will be merging these wiki pages together.
[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Multicasting[/url][/quote]

I’ve reviewed both of those pages before you merged them. There aren’t any instructions to change the multicast data address.

I’ve found instructions on other sites & forms but they are for FOG 0.32 and 0.33. I’m working with FOG 1.2.0 on Fedora 21 workstation. The files referenced here: [url]http://www.gravitycomputing.co.nz/fog-multicast-server-032/[/url] don’t exist on my installation.

This site [url]http://www.digriz.org.uk/debian/freeghost[/url] towards the bottom mentions changing the multicast address on Debian, however when I open those files, they look nothing like what the site has.

Thanks,
Wayne

Hello,

Our organization has a customized multicast setup. For my particular location, the address that is configured for multicast is NOT the very last address in the broadcast domain.

How do I change what address FOG multicasts to?

Keep in mind, unicast upload/download and all the amazing active directory features work great already.

Using Fedora 21 & the latest version of FOG on sourceforge.

Thanks,
Wayne

Hello,

I work in a large organization and years ago, our old network admin did custom multicast setup for all of our sites. So, the standard broadcast address for our FOG server’s broadcast domain does not work.

Unicast works though, like a charm!

I need to change the multicast address to is 224.0.2.224 and I was told to use “streamport 7800”, whatever that is.

I’m using Fedora 21 and the latest version of fog.

If anyone can offer assistance, it’d be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Wayne