A quick questin, this forum has been invaluable for me.
Can a pc pxe booted to the linuxPE image (using the ghost executable in the ghost folder on the shared drive) access a multicast session on a ghostcast server, has anybody used that or got it to work?
Everything I try just comes back with the error that it cannot access multicast session <session name>
The reason I am asking is if multicasting is not supported then why is it saying that it can't access the session and not something like "this feature is not available"
I have tried the following;
- Windows PE works fine, connects to session and starts deploying the image, so firewalls and ports etc... should be good
- linux can ping the ghost server and can mount browse the drive etc...so linux networking looks good to me.
- I have 30 machine all the same type, all the same problem
- I have other machines with the same problem
- they are all using the intel e1000e network module under linux the machine has onboard intel gigabit card.
- wireshark shows two udp connection atempts to port 6666 but then no further activity
- wireshark under windows does alot more and then starts multicast.
- image of the error is attached
- I use the following command ghost -clone,mode=restore,src=mc"g",dst=1 -sure -blind -jaddr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
- to kick of the session
- i have tried starting the ghostcast server in unicast mode, no change
- i have tried to start the client in unicast but cannot find a switch to do that
- the ghosterr.txt file does not have anything in it about what the issue is.
does anybody have any insight? I have raised a ticket with symantec support and while they have been very helpful they do not have many people using linux and do not have much experience with it. My reason for using it is that the boot image file is 18MB as opposed to the smallest windows PE i can get with is about 120MB
thank you all.
Alan