From: Michael Madore <mmadore@turbolinux.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] PXE Boot
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:15:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805854@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805846@msgid-missing>
Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> The problem is that the client side needs to know the size of the file
> to allocate memory for it. By default, the TFTP protocol has no
> command to ask for the size of the file. To work around the problem,
> the client can load the file a few bytes at a time just to calculate
> the size. Once the size is known, the allocation is done and the
> file can be downloaded for real.
I noticed that the tftp server logged two requests for elilo.efi. Does
this look like a problem on the client or the server?
> The ATFTP adds the support to ask for the file size, therefore you save
> one download of the file. Note that elilo has the same thing when it
> downloads any file from the network.
Is aftpd required?
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-16 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-16 18:21 [Linux-ia64] PXE Boot Luck, Tony
2002-01-16 18:23 ` Stephane Eranian
2002-01-16 18:24 ` Michael Madore
2002-01-16 18:49 ` Stephane Eranian
2002-01-16 18:56 ` Michael Madore
2002-01-16 18:57 ` Michael Madore
2002-01-16 18:59 ` Egan Ford
2002-01-16 19:13 ` Michael Madore
2002-01-16 19:15 ` Michael Madore [this message]
2002-01-16 19:21 ` Stephane Eranian
2002-01-16 19:29 ` Tolentino, Matthew E
2002-01-16 19:36 ` Dick Brown
2002-01-16 19:58 ` Michael Madore
2002-01-16 20:01 ` Michael Madore
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