The option of ipappend 1 in the default file and retransmission
of HELLOs in udp-sender (--rexmit-hello-interval) has been
valuable to getting udpcast working with the Dell notebooks
we have with Broadcom 5700 series ethernet.
Today, with a slightly newer broadcom chipset appearing in
the most recent shipment, we noticed that udp-receiver was
intermittantly not showing the "hit any button to start transfer"
message. With some trial and error I found that if I
watched the tail of /var/log/message on the receiver (server)
and waited for the messages on TX and RX flow control to
complete before running udp-receiver, it would always initiate
a good connection. If I had started the udp-receiver
prior to the TX/RX flow control appearing in the message log
(in which case there was no "hit any key" message),
I could ^C the receiver, run it again and it would signify
the ready state with 100% success.
In conclusion, we have a workaround of starting udp-receiver
after a few seconds past the client PXE machine booting and
showing the udp-sender status ready (but not yet "hit any key...").
Another solution would be if udp-receiver also supported
--rexmit-hello-interval. It isn't a flaw in the udpcast system
but a kludge for a network device that is proving itself to be
sluggish in initialization in general.
--Donald Teed
Hi!
I'am using udpcast to transfert disk Images from a server to several clients.
The server box has one Network card and several virtual interfaces (eth0, eth0:0, eth0:1...).
When I try to send a file to one client through one of the virtual interface(eth0:x) everything goes well.
But when the client number increases (more than one) I get an error saying:
Rogue packet received <eth0 IP address>:9001 expecting <eth0:x IP address>:9001
The command line used on the server is :
udp-sender --file <filename> --interface eth0:x
On the client:
udp-receiver --file <filename>
It seems that only the eth0 interface can be used bay udpcast. It works perfectly with this one.
How can I get udpcast to work with my virtual interfaces
Sorry for my bad English!
Thank you for your help.
regards
Alex
Try number 2... Smaller image this time..
Hiya..
I've built a custom ISO image to boot our HP DL360 servers to image
them. I've done this, because none of the images I've seen so far have
support for the HP/Compaq SmartArray 5i. I belive I've done everything
correctly, but I get a boot failure off the CD... Everything SEEMS to go
fine, and then I get an error relating to INITRD and the RAMDisk. I'm
using a custom 2.6.8 kernel with RAMDisk and ROMFS support compiled in.
wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage # ls -l
total 5104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 12:13 .
drwx------ 13 root root 4096 Aug 27 12:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3484482 Aug 27 12:13 INITRD
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15324 Aug 27 11:40 ISOLINUX.BIN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 Aug 27 11:01 ISOLINUX.CFG
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1696890 Aug 27 11:40 LINUX
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Aug 27 11:01 boot.catalog
wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage # cat ISOLINUX.CFG
default linux
label linux
kernel LINUX
append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=INITRD
wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage # mkisofs -o /root/udpcast.iso -b ISOLINUX.BIN -c
boot.catalog -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /root/cdimage
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 4000
2592 extents written (5 Mb)
wh-lnxdb1:~/cdimage #
Please see attached image for the error I'm getting..
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?..
Thanks,
Richard.
--
Richard Whittaker, CISSP
System Manager,
NorthwesTel Inc.
Hi,
I am interested in finding a solution to multicast a very large 21GB image
onto our new G5 machines. We have got quite a few to do so ASR via
Firewire is no longer an acceptable solution. Has anyone ever done this
before and been successful?
Background
----------
I spoke with an Apple System Engineer in Canada and he has informed me
that Apple doesn't have a multicast solution in place yet. However, the
developers at Apple HQ have heard our cry all the way from here and may be
working on finding a solution possibly in the near future.
Since I found this software last night I haven't had much time to play
with it and workout all the compilation errors (missing and incomplete
libraries for OSX). We have a Gb network for two brand new labs to be
setup and running in a week. So I am really trying to find a more robust
solution as the image may be modified during a term for repairs or a
complete overhaul. For now our plan B is to use Carbon Copy Cloner from
http://www.bombich.com, which is working out to be the only stable
solution. Its a painfully slow process. One machine at a time.
Alternatively, we can NetBoot a few machines at a time and use ASR (Apple
Software Restore) but the disk isn't fast enough on our AFP shared drive
to distribute data to more than 4 clients at a time. This process takes
about 270-300 minutes to dump 21GB image on these clients since each
connection is a unicast.
Any help and comments are appreciated.
--
Rishi R. Arora
LAN Administrator
University of Toronto at Mississauga
I my name is Tiago, and i have a problem with UDP-SENDER, the problem is
i don't get send files in udp-sender for others interfaces,
the comand of server is :
udp-sender --file my_file --interface tunnel0 --mcast-all-addr
224.0.0.0 --min-clients 2 it's ok.
on the clients:
client 1
udp-receiver -f my_file -i tunnel0 --mcast-all-addr 224.0.0.0
client 2:
udp-receiver -f my_file -i eth1
the error is a time out in one client type client 2, than show in sever.
how i am solve this problem ?
thanks for attention!!!
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