[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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