Quickly move an executable between systems with ELF Statifier
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 68.194.167.138]
on October 23, 2008 11:19 PM
This program came in pretty handy recently.
I use SystemImager to install linux images and on some machines it was going pretty slow. (3-4 hours) It was because the network switches were set at 100Mbps Full duplex Autoneg off with no way to change it.
SystememImagers PXE environment tried to use Autoneg. It failed and fell back to 10Mbps half duplex.
To force it to run at 100Mbps full duplex, I needed to run "ethtool" before the image loading began. A regular ethtool did not work because the required libraries were missing in the bare PXE environment.
This is where statifier came in handy. I created a static ethtool on another server, copied it to a location from where I could call it in SystemImagers scripts just before the image loading began.
And SystemImager was back to loading images in 10 mins.
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Quickly move an executable between systems with ELF Statifier
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 68.194.167.138] on October 23, 2008 11:19 PMI use SystemImager to install linux images and on some machines it was going pretty slow. (3-4 hours) It was because the network switches were set at 100Mbps Full duplex Autoneg off with no way to change it.
SystememImagers PXE environment tried to use Autoneg. It failed and fell back to 10Mbps half duplex.
To force it to run at 100Mbps full duplex, I needed to run "ethtool" before the image loading began. A regular ethtool did not work because the required libraries were missing in the bare PXE environment.
This is where statifier came in handy. I created a static ethtool on another server, copied it to a location from where I could call it in SystemImagers scripts just before the image loading began.
And SystemImager was back to loading images in 10 mins.
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