[syslinux] MTFTP support in PXElinux??

[Stephen Brown]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Harry Hoffman wrote:

> Are there any plans to support MTFTP? The reason I ask is that I would really
> like to be able to serve tftp via multicast.
> Does anyone know of any other network bootloaders that use multicast? Do many
> people see this as a need?

I'll pipe up and say that we at UMBC are using Norton's Ghost for this
purpose -- our computer labs consist of rooms full of identical
machines, and updating the image on one machine at a time would be
tedious at best.  I can also imagine that with the popularity of Beowulf
clusters, that a change to the OS would be easier to propagate via
multicast to all machines at once (I think I have heard some of the
folks experimenting with clusters mention pxe booting, but I'm not sure
what tools they use).

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu