Re: [Etherboot-developers] Loading kernel over NFS fails (solved!)

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>UDP is nothing but a port number so IP/TCP is certainly harder
>than IP/UDP.  However the relevant case is how does:
>
>IP/UDP/TFTP or IP/UDP/NFS compare to IP/TCP/HTTP

But you need UDP for DHCP for the foreseeable future so the TFTP on top
of that is a small extra, whereas HTTP on top of TCP would be a lot of
code in addition to the UDP code. HTTP adds its own complexity, you have
to parse the headers, etc and this spills over into more functions, more
buffers in "userspace", etc.  And you wouldn't be able to do multicast
on TCP.