[syslinux] nilo -> tftp-hpa interaction

[H. Peter Anvin]

Josef Siemes wrote:

> 
>>18:02:06.374918 192.168.1.7.3012 > 192.168.1.115.2001: udp 516
>>                         4500 0220 0fb8 0000 4011 e54a c0a8 0107
>>                         c0a8 0173 0bc4 07d1 020c f5af 0003 0001
>>                         3613 031b 5400 0000 0000 2092 0000 8092
>>                         6d6b 6e62 692d
>>
> 
> 'Data 0001 <data>'. 
> 
> So there's no option acknowledgement, since no option was requested.
> Since the 'netascii' packets tend to be bigger than the 'octet'
> packets I think this stumbles over some packet != 512 Bytes data, and
> it seems to be the first one ...
> 


Actually this packet contains exactly 512 bytes of data -- if it didn't it
would be an EOF packet (the tftp protocol is rather bizarre that way.)

Most likely is that NILO is requesting "netascii" but really means "octet"
-- a pretty serious bug which should be fixed.

	-hpa