Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:19:10 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: tftp server Message-ID: <20040224211910.GB6356@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040224181638.GA16904@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <6.0.3.0.2.20040224190540.02a65998@202.179.0.80> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040224120954.55432M-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040224172136.GA29875@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040224181638.GA16904@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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--gj572EiMnwbLXET9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:16:38PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > > It's worth noting that ours works poorly with PXE clients. The > > ftp/tftp-hpa port is the one most commonly recommend for PXE > > applications. >=20 > I've never had any problems PXE booting FreeBSD using out tftpd, > but I did have trouble with Linux once - the loader insisted that > the transfer size option. Since I MFCed that a while ago, and haven't > had any trouble since (though it would be nice if we supported the > blocksize option). Any idea what the nature of the problems are? FreeBSD has always just worked, at least with the default configuration that uses NFS for most things. I think blocksize support may be manditory for some clients. I think there might have been another feature requred for some clients, but I can't remember what it was off the top of my head. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --gj572EiMnwbLXET9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAO7/JXY6L6fI4GtQRArI1AJkBhX44H5qt1351lczO58/u715YMACeNfh3 tOPOKm536DkQLmMIQDaX8HU= =gSU6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gj572EiMnwbLXET9--
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