Re: [Linux-ia64] PXE Boot

Dick Brown
2002-01-16T19:36:20Z

Hi Stephane,
What is the configurations of the machine you are
booting remotely. What firmware does it run on.

thanks,
Dick

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:15:57AM -0800, Michael
Madore wrote:
> 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?

That is normal with a normal tftpd. Note that you
don't see this for the
kernel because elilo.efi uses an internal cache to
avoid asking for the
file again.

>
> > 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?

No I don't run it and I netboot everyday. I use the
tftpd shipped with RH7.2.

--
-Stephane

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