[syslinux] atftp vs tftp-hpa scalability

[H. Peter Anvin]

Vallard Benincosa wrote:
> sorry about that last post...
> I have been using atftp as my tftp server and have found that there are
> security warnings about it:
> http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2002/sep/1005231.html
> &
> http://www.netric.org/advisories/netric-adv0101.txt
> 
> I was thinking of changing to tftp-hpa but was interested to know about
> scaling. How many nodes could be pxebooted (kickstarted) at the same time
> via atftp or tftp-hpa?  When is it better to use tftp-hpa vs atftp? are
> there advantages one has over the other?
> 

atftp should scale better; tftp-hpa is more portable, and offers the
regular expression file remapping feature (which atftp may want to copy.)

	-hpa