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Cc: Carl Chave <carl@chave.us>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: pxe LiveCD setup
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:

> The only complaint I have so far is the speed of download via tftp.  A
> 236M ISO took two minutes to load, or about 2M per second.  A full CD
> takes a long, long time.  Is that typical, or maybe just the poor
> Ethernet on this Aspire One D250?

The stock tftpd on FreeBSD doesn't support variant block sizes (or much
of anything else past RFC 1350).  You'll see better performance if you
go with something newer.