[Etherboot-developers] Multicast TFTP

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

Hi

It looks like Multicast TFTP is pretty much ready.  I have resolved the last couple of issues I had.  It looks like some of the UDP checksum errors I had are related to a "stupid" Intel NIC.  (I had sworn off Intel NIC's once, may be I should have stuck with that).

I was using PXE to load EB to multicast load tom's floppy linux via the same NIC.  I switched the EB to a different rom and it worked fine with the tlan.

Even the memory corruption seems to have gone away.  I am not sure why, so it may rear its head in a larger test base.  ( I have successfully used multicast EB to boot 3 machines)

I will continue to do some cleanup and maybe even comments  (It took me the longest time to figure out that >> 3 means devide by 8) but the structure of the code will probably stay as is.  I had fleeting thought of looking at the atftp client to implement a cleaner implementation, but this seems to meet my needs (of course I have no real need for EB multicast tftp) and atftp is probably overkill.

Regards

Tim