Re: [Etherboot-developers] Patch for TFTP-multicast released

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Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <an...@ho...> writes:

> Hi list,
> 
> after some days of hard coding (and several times hanging around searching 
> for typos) I finally managed to boot my first kernel image with
> TRIVIAL FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL MULTICAST MODE
> or what my dhcpd.conf says
> 	filename "x-tftm://172.16.75.1/vmlinuz.ltsp";
> this morning, 10:39 GMT.
 
 
> BTW: Is there any *tested* and *stable* Tftp-server out there that supports 
> multicast, blocksize and tsize (as my code requires all three options)?

Look up atftp.  As a normal tftp server I have gotten good results, and I
recently noticed it supports tftp multicast.  So in theory it should work
but it hasn't been tested with any other tftp clients yet.  I just noticed
this yesterday.

> I will have to adapt a lot anyhow, as timeouts and so need a touch, but I 
> would like to keep it mostly at this skeleton. If there is nothing really 
> usable out there, I will have to hand out my own server, but it's ugly coded 
> and miles away from being "ready" - it even has no timeouts yet, but handles 
> several clients on the same file, which was most important.
> 
> Following the philosophy of "Release early, patch often...":
> Comments welcome.

Eric