Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:13:26 +0930 (CST) From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com> To: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> Cc: Tomas Svensson <tsn@gbdev.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendfile() in tftpd? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204240312270.2513-100000@ns.aus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204231521120.24266-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > No, sendfile() is only for TCP connections, TFTP is using UDP. If you > > want performance, use something else. > It's even in the manpage: > Sendfile() sends a regular file specified by descriptor fd out a stream > socket specified by descriptor s. > > Silly me. BTW, I can't use anything else. Are there any alternatives to > TFTP for booting machines off the network? (using standard, PC components) Multicast! BootIX (nee InCom) have support for this in their BootROMS. it might not be hard to hack into Etherboot et al. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, sharpe@ethereal.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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