Now the clients connects but hangs when 1-30 MB has been transferred. I have then tried with the DOS Intel network driver from IBM (e1000.dos). The client just hangs - it never connect with the server (which is Windows XP).

But with our new machines (IBM X60 and T60), this is not working anymore. I used to ghost all my machines (Compaq, HP and IBM laptops and desktops) with the PXE Packet driver from Symantec Ghost v. Is there something that Symantec's PXE driver does that allows multicasting using Ghost to work that these other drivers aren't doing?īefore I go chasing more network ghosts, I'm wondering if there's anything you can suggest for me to try (or if Symantec has a newer version of their packet driver that supports passing arguments to force negotiation of network speed and duplexing. I have also tried using the packet driver developed by Crynwr (), but this hasn't been successful either. I have tried using Symantec's included Intel PRO 100 as well as the Intel NDIS2 drivers downloaded from Dell for my network card, since I can use these to force 100Full, but multicasting using this driver never seemed to work all that well, even with hardware that worked with the included Symantec PXE Packet driver. I have tried forcing the the PXE packet driver to use 100 FULL by editing the autoexec.bat file in the boot image to read:īut the executable does not take command line arguments. After investigating a little, we determined that the PXE packet driver was not autonegotiating 100 FULL correctly, causing network collisions and the subsequent client droppage. When running multicast or even multiple unicast sessions using the included Symantec PXE packet driver, the session hangs after a few seconds and then begins dropping clients and then the transfer speed drops dramatically. I make TCP/IP network boot images using the Symantec Ghost Boot Wizard. Generally this works very well, but I've run into problems using this setup with a particular set of hardware (Dell Dimension 4700 with Intel Pro/100 VE integrated NICs). on Windows XP to deploy XP images to around 50 machines at a time using multicast.

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