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

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

> There is one large difference between a multicast download and a
normal
> download.

> When doing multicast the data packets potentially arrive in a random
order
> so there
> is not enough information to place them where they need to go
immediately.

Ah yes, there is that.

> tftp code to use two passes to load a file.  So there is a reasonable
> justification for

You are probably correct.  I wasn't thinking about the need to reorder
the data packets.

Tim

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