> Granted, I've never >seen it work yet, so I'm probably just ignorant of how it's supposed to >work... but maybe someone can enlighten me?
It works for me. ;-)
Have a look at the FAQ and "HOWTO Use Flamethrower for Muliticast Installs" sections of this document, and see if that helps: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~finley/systemimager-manual-3.2.0.pdf
Is this being done currently? If not, then the code in OSCAR that sets
up the environment needs to be fixed. How long are clients set to
wait?
This is set in /etc/systemimager/flamethrower.conf
Maybe that needs to be tuned. I've always expected that I can
select multicast in the appropriate places, netboot my machines and they
should just work... but they aren't actually getting anything as far as
I can tell, just an endless stream of dots printing out on the console. We've been claiming multicast support for a long time with nobody
actually seeing a successful multicast install except for you, Brian. Is something not being set up correctly? Is it our network? Is it the
flamethrower/udpcast code? Is it just a matter of us not waiting long
enough? According to the manual you refer to, the process is failing
somewhere around step 4, 5, or 6.
I don't know the answers to your questions without seeing more diagnostic output.
Please look at this, because multicast is a very important feature for OSCAR. It seems like you've ignored multiple past questions/comments/e-mails about the issue, always passing it off with a "works for me" comment, but I hope this can be resolved this time.
I'd like to get it working under OSCAR too. I think the biggest shortcoming is the documentation right now. We've just released the 3.2.0 stable version of SystemImager, which includes this support, and we should be sure that any further testing is done using that version, or newer.
I'm doing a 'cvs up' on my oscar source right now, and i'll get the new packages committed.
Unfortunately, one of my critical work related meetings got scheduled over the OSCAR calls a while back, and I've gotten out of sync.
You all should know I'm not trying to ignore you, or OSCAR, but that and my current workload have made it difficult. Is there any chance that the call would be rescheduled at some point?
Cheers, -Brian
Thanks, Jason
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