etherboot-developers

[Etherboot-developers] Multicast Support

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

Hi

Waht is necessary for multicast support.  From What I can tell the drivers need to configure the nic for multicast support and any required support code.  However I am wondering more about how to configure the server for testing/development purposes.

Do I need to specifically tell the Server to use multicast?

Do I need a different tftp server (for some reason this seems familiar).  Are there other option/configurations that I need to consider.

Tim

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Multicast Support

[<ebi...@ln...>]

Timothy Legge <tl...@ro...> writes:

> Hi
> 
> Waht is necessary for multicast support.  From What I can tell the drivers need
> to configure the nic for multicast support and any required support code.
> However I am wondering more about how to configure the server for
> testing/development purposes.

Right.  The filters on the nics need to be configured to receive multicast
packets.  That is pretty much a one liner.

> Do I need to specifically tell the Server to use multicast?

Yes.  Most importantly multicast support needs to be built into the kernel.
(Although this is the default).

> Do I need a different tftp server (for some reason this seems familiar).  Are
> there other option/configurations that I need to consider.

The server situation as I know it is:
atftp theoretically has support but it has not been tested against etherboot yet.

There is also the stupid mini-slamd server in the contrib directory.  
Which because of it's nature requires virtually no setup.  You supply
the correct url to etherboot.

Eric