Alessandro Sardo wrote:

Hello,

I am evaluating UDPcast for cloning a whole LAN. It seems to be a wonderful program, although I have a couple of problems.

question #1 In the changelog page, it is reported that version 20070622 fixed a lzop blocksize issue. Since I always use lzop compression, I guess I should update to this latest version... but I cannot find it anywhere. I always use cast-o-matic to generate a custom ISO, but it generates one with the old 20070602 version. Would it be possible to update cast-o-matic to the latest one or make a ready-made ISO bootable CD image available somewhere?

Ooops. It was present all along, but I somehow completely forgot to update the pointers in the HTML file... This is now fixed.

question #2 When I clone many PCs, I always get many retransmissions in full-duplex mode. In the tuning hints page, it is suggested to lowering the slice size with the "--slice-size" option.

Another thing to check is whether you do indeed have a full-duplex network. If not, use half-duplex mode. Older hub-based 10Mbps networks are half-duplex.

How can I do that via cast-o-matic?

You can set this using the "Additional Udpcast command-line parameters" setting on the second page of the configurator

What's the config parameter to change and what do you suggest as a safe value?

Try 128, and then increase or decrease as you see fit.

Thanks very much for your inputs!

• AS

Alain