[syslinux] message during pxelinux install
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jun 6 13:54:40 PDT 2003
Vallard Benincosa wrote:
> I'm curious about a message that I receive while pxe booting. It doesn't
> seem to affect anything, but I wonder why it is there. My tftp server is
> tftp-hpa. Below is part of /var/log/messages. The message I am curious
> about is:
> Jun 6 15:44:44 devmstr tftpd[29276]: tftp: client does not accept options
> Why do I get this and should I do something about it? Thanks!
>
This is common for Intel-derived PXE stacks: they request a tsize option
transfer to gauge the size of the file, then terminate it with EOPTNEG.
Nothing really to worry about.
-hpa
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