[syslinux] Does pxelinux tftp support BLOCK-SIZE option

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Dec 18 15:22:29 PST 2002


Sowmya.Krishnaswamy at nokia.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does PXELINUX support tftp BLOCK-SIZE option? If so, what would be the maximum BLOCK-SIZE that can be used for the transfer? The RFC says that the range can be [8 - 65536]. 
> 

No, it does not, and adding support for it would be quite complex due to
the somewhat unfortunate way the blksize option is defined.

tftp-hpa supports a blksize2 option which theoretically could be used by
pxelinux, but it doesn't seem worth it to add support for a proprietary
option.

	-hpa





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