Re: [Etherboot-developers] to:Eric W. Biederman

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"zhiguo deng" <dz...@ho...> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman:
>     Is there a server code for etherboot that support multicast?

A) yes.

B) I don't currently have authorization to release it.  If I get a
   spare minute I will check on this.  There is some argument for
   getting a server released but I don't want to go there.

At the same time a simple server could be written in probably 1000 lines
of C, and probably less.  

There are a lot of options for just getting something up and running.
- The stupidest server would just transmit the entire file over and
  over again.  
- A slightly smarter server would transmit the file only when it saw a 
  nack packet. 
- An even smater server would actually pay attention to what the
  client needs, and send the client just the necessary data.  And
  periodically ping the client when it wanted to know what it needed.
- An even smater would keep track of more than one client at a time.

My gut impression at this point is that having to document the
protocol, so someone else can write a second server.  And having the
experiences from a second completely different implementation would
be very useful.

Eric