Re: [Linux-ia64] PXE Boot

Stephane Eranian
2002-01-16T19:21:06Z

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.

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-Stephane