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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:07:14 +0200
From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
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Subject: Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:18:17PM -0700, David G. Lawrence wrote:
> 
>    I assume you saw this in the tftpd manual page?
> 
> BUGS
>      Files larger than 33488896 octets (65535 blocks) cannot be transferred
>      without client and server supporting blocksize negotiation (RFC1783).
> 
>      Many tftp clients will not transfer files over 16744448 octets (32767
>      blocks).

There is a PR open with a patch to fix this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/67550

-- 
Francois Tigeot