ocs_prerun dhclient bond0 Not Working

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ocs_prerun dhclient bond0 Not Working

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: diagguru123

Created: 2024-05-02

Updated: 2024-05-23

diagguru123 - 2024-05-02

I am trying to set up a preconfigured live boot clonezilla disk with bonded network of eth0 & eth1. Using the "ocs_prerun="dhclient -v bond0" it throws an error "cannot find device "bond0"". Even using an unmodifed live boot and using the TUI to do it manually, I still get the same error on multiple different machines. The option bond0 does not appear to work. I know the" dhclient -v eth0" or "dhclient -v eth1" works with my ocs_preruns configurations, i just want to up the cloning speed over the network for this client machine.

I have tested this with 20240116 mantic amd64 ubuntu & an older version debian 3.0.2-21-amd64. Problem persists with both versions.

Any ideas?

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diagguru123 - 2024-05-03

I have a further update, I located an old clonezilla usb I made thats an even older version of Clonezilla debian i686 11-2-21 date, bond0 works as intended with this version. Appears to be a possible bug with newer versions?

However this version wont work in my case- because I need to have the ability to image nvme drives quickly, as older versions dont have the "-edio"

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diagguru123 - 2024-05-06

^bump

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Steven Shiau - 2024-05-07

Thanks for your feedback. I confirmed this issue. We will fix it asap.

Steven

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Steven Shiau - 2024-05-12

Please give testing Clonezilla live >= 3.1.2-26 or 20240511-* a try.
This issue should have been fixed.
Please let us know the result.
Thanks.

Steven

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- diagguru123 - 2024-05-20
  
  Sorry about the late response, I was away. This morning I have tested this version.
  
  So TUI bond0 works as intended. However, when automating it, my ocs_prerun of "dhclient -v bond0" still fails and gives the same error as before of 'No such device'. This was tested with 20240511 Mantic.
  
  Thanks!
  
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Steven Shiau - 2024-05-21

Have you run any command in ocs_prerun* to bond your network devices?
By default, as Clonezilla live boots, it does not bond any device. You have to bond them first.

Steven

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- diagguru123 - 2024-05-21
  
  "dhclient -v bond0" is set as my first ocs_prerun1, I was assuming that bond0 could be used in the same manner as using "dhclient -v eth0".
  
  Referencing this, https://wiki.debian.org/Bonding From what I understand how bonding works, bond0 if referenced by a config file? How does one update that if its a live boot environment then for automation? Unless there is a different method to just, predefine which network adapters to use, such as eth0 & eth1.
  
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Steven Shiau - 2024-05-21

Before you use "dhclient -v bond0", you have to create the NIC bond0, telling the system which NICs will be used for bond0.
You can refer to this doc:
https://backdrift.org/manage-linux-bonding-without-ifenslave-using-sysfs/
In Clonezilla, the program "/usr/sbin/ocs-live-nicbonding" is used to create that. You can refer to its content. It's a shell script.

Steven

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Steven Shiau - 2024-05-23

I should be more specific, actually you can make it like:
ocs_prerun1="ocs-live-nicbonding eth0 eth1" ocs_prerun2="dhclient -v bond0"

Steven

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- diagguru123 - 2024-05-23
  
  Thank you! Funny enough i was just typing this, That is actually what i ended up using except I add in a sleep command between each prerun.
  
  What I ended up using in my prerun:
  ocs_prerun1="sudo /usr/sbin/ocs-live-nicbonding eth0 eth1" ocs_prerun2="sleep 3" ocs_prerun3="dhclient -v bond0"
  
  Much appreciated Steven! Keep up the good work!
  
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Steven Shiau - 2024-05-23

Enjoy Clonezilla!

Steven

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