Re: [Etherboot-developers] TFTP speed

[<ke...@us...>]

>Hi. Not sure if this is the correct place of this post, forgive me if it is
>not.    It seems that the TFTP speed downloading a kernel from an Etherboot
>workstation using a standard 33.6 modem is very slow.  I know that 33.6kbps
>is nothing like 10 or 100-base-T, but we can see the send/recv LEDs blink

You're a brave man to do TFTP across a 33.6kb link.  That's roughly 300
times slower than 10 Mb. How far is the client from the server network
wise, i.e. what sort of delay numbers do you get when you do a ping?
TFTP was never intended for downloading across thin links, the UDP
protocol is stop and wait. TCP gets its speed from buffering and
streaming. You really should situate a server near the client.