[syslinux] ethereal log of PXE bootup

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 20 08:28:33 PDT 2006


Ed Sutter wrote:
> 
> 
> This maybe outside the context of this list, but I'll shoot it out
> anyway...
> 
> I've looked at a few ethereal dumps of PXE transactions and I noticed
> that the client adds the "tsize" option to the TFTP read request (as 
> expected), and the server responds (also as expected), but in more than one case I 
> notice that the client then returns  a TFTP_ERROR, apparently indicating that 
> it doesn't understand the TFTP_OACK response that the server sent in response to 
> the 'tsize' request.
> 
> Everything seems to work, but the client sends this error.  Seems kinda 
> strange that the client wouldn't understand the TFTP_OACK, since it was the 
> device that generated the 'tsize' request in the first place.
> 

It looks strange, but what the client is saying here really is "thanks, 
that's all I wanted to know."

	-hpa




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