Re: [Etherboot-discuss] Any size limitation of the loading image in Etherboot

[isac <is...@tr...>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Of course, with a properly written TFTP server and client, you should
> just be able to wrap around the block numbers without problems.  This
> doesn't apply to *multicast* TFTP.

I think etherboot had done just that long before 5.2.4 which I used, a 
few years back, for nbi's as big as 130MB. So I guess Joyce must be 
referring to a very old version of etherboot (I played with one before 
and experienced the same problem discussed here). Switching to a newer 
version of etherboot might be an easier alternative to porting a driver. 
The bottom line is that the tftp server must be one of those (eg. 
tftp-hpa) capable of transferring big files :)

> 
> That being said, for an image that large, http (or any other TCP-based
> protocol) is better.
> 
> 	-hpa

isac