Re: [Etherboot-developers] Multicast Support

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>Waht is necessary for multicast support.  From What I can tell the drivers ne
>ed 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/de
>velopment 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.

You need a tftp server with multicast support. atftp supports RFC2090.
You don't need to do anything special at the server machine other than
run the service with -m. Also I believe the URL of the bootfile has to
indicate you want multicast loading.

What I've forgotten is what kinds of multicast support Eric has put in
the code. I believe he's got RFC2090 support there and also one for use
with lnxi clusters. I'm sure he'll post the story.