RE: [Etherboot-developers] Re: TCP and HTTP support

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

> implementation of multicast).  That alternative is to build a tree
> of machines where the root only transmits the image to some of them.

As I was working on tftm it crossed my mind that EB might be able to
transmit a received packet to another multicast address as it is
received.  However since the NICs are not filtering the addresses, it
would probably just add clutter to the network.
 
> novel use of http support.  As a machine comes up it can temporarily
> be an http cache for a particular boot file.

But could it finish transmitting it before the loaded boot file takes
over?