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

[<ke...@et...>]

>Now that you mention it, it was unclear.  Yes, I was referring to
>Anselm's current multicast tftp code in proto_mftm.c.  I think my
>changes bring it closer to supporting taftp (and the RFC if atftp
>implements it correctly) however it needs some work particularly around
>error handling.
>
>However, its seems to me that the only real difference that RFC 2090
>means for tftp is the way a file is requested and the servers
>acknowledgment to the client.  I may be way off base here (especially
>since I have not even looked at how Etherboot currently communicates
>with a now-multicast server), but I think if multicast tftp is compiled
>in we should (with minor changes to etherboot's standard tftp process):

I think Eric has replied also, but I concur with his cautions. If you
want to start with the current tftp code. I suggest you make a copy of
the tftp code and modify that to support RFC 2090.  Then when you think
you have it working well, go back and factor out the common stuff.
Otherwise you may end up with two broken clients. At least if you don't
get RFC 2090 working, you still have one good client.