Re: [Linux-ia64] PXE Boot

Michael Madore
2002-01-16T19:15:57Z

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