To set the context, I've been having a real hard tiem getting flamethrower working properly on mulitple systems and finally got back to playing with it. Actually I did make a lot of progress today - I ran udp-sender and udp-receiver manually and took flamethrower out of the equation. The first thing I observed was the output of the udp-receiver is invaluable in tracking down problems. I don't know why this is surpressed by flamethrower, but I'd highly encourage allowing the users to see it or at the very least enable it when in debug mode.
What I saw was I was getting "pipe full" errors which led me to believe that the date was coming in faster than tar could take it out of the pipe (sending the data to /dev/null ran fine but when adding the pipe to tar the failures started). This caused me to back off the bit rate to about 15Mb (these are old systems) and though I still got 'pipe full' messages they were far less frequent.
Having convinced myself that I could do a reliable multicast at 15Mb, I backed the rate down to 5Mb and then tried 2 clients. Worked like a champ too. However, when I tried 3 clients things immediately got very ugly. The flamethrowed was sending out a lot of "Timeout notAnswered" messages.
One of clients would proceed all the way to downloading the system image while the other 2 were stuck at trying to download the flamethrower directory (I'm assuming this is where the timeouts were coming from but I have no idea why). I halted the 3 clients and rebooted just 2 and they ran fine again. I tried 3 and they failed again. The problem is since the client doesn't tell me what udp-receiver is saying, I can't tell what's going on. Are they generating more 'pipe full' errors? I'm tempted to try and run 3 receivers manually just so I can see the diagnostics, but I thought I'd mention what I'm seeing here to see if anyone else has seen this sort of behavior.
-mark
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