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From: Michael Madore <mmadore@turbolinux.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:15:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] PXE Boot
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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