Cisco and Ghost

[ttnnee]

Has anyone had any problems using Ghost Enterprise 6.5 in a Cisco environment. We are seeing very slow multicast ghost sessions (6 hours for one session). Sometimes one ghost session will halt our entire network. Any suggestions?

 

[MJewell]

If anyone has any help on this topic, I would be interested also, I've had it take almost 24hrs for a 2gig ghost session. using Dell GX1's & GXa's with built-in 3Com 10/100 nics, across a Cisco 2922C switch from a Clone Athlon 1.33 w/ 768m ram and Intel Pro100b nic... all running 100 FD, with no reasons found at all....

 

[FastHackem]

I need more info:

I tested multicasting 12 comps with both a repeater and a Cisco Switch. BIG Difference. We use Ghost 7 Enterprise. What is your setup?? Are you Ghosting over the network or have an isolated switch?? I had major lag using the repeater, but with the switch it soared!!

 

[ttnnee]

We ghost over the network, but we enable cgmp of both the switch and the router. This way the multicast should just be sent to its intended clients. I read about an issue on Symantec's website stating that if you use the NIC 3com 905b that you should manually set it to half duplex speed 100. We are using 905c's here. Another problem is that we are seeing the local multicast session at our remote centers come back here across our WAN. Is there a way to stop this without stopping all multicast in general from travesing the WAN?

 

[MJewell]

Mine is about the same, we have a ghost 6.5 console with over 100 pc's on our network, ghosting through a 2922C on the 4th floor, to a 3548 on the 1st (100BT connection) to the different pc's there, there all Dell optiplex with the built in 3c920 (905c integrated) and when we ghost the speed will start out at about 80mpm and slowly drop down to <1mpm, sometimes ghost sessions have taken 24 hours to complete...

Were using the ghost client software so they should be directed broadcasts instead of multicast correct?

Mike

 

[bjzielinski]

You may want to set your Cisco ports to Auto/Auto for Speed/Duplex and your file server to 100/FullDuplex. The computer should be set to 100FDX as well. We experienced similar problems with some computers and not with others, but since this change the speed has improved dramatically. Be sure to also set port fast to disable for ports that link to other switches as well as 100FDX for those ports only. This will disallow auto-negotiating which takes time. Bill Zielinski
bzielinski@co.midland.mi.us
County of Midland, Michigan

 

[ttnnee]

I have already tried setting the duplex and speed settings manually. I also do not have portfast running on uplink ports. I think it might be an issue with ghost 6.5 because we never had these issues with 6.0.