[syslinux] tftpd-hpa feature suggestion

[H. Peter Anvin]

omri wrote:
> 
> I'm not fimilar with the tftp protocol, all I know is that it uses UDP.
> Maybe there's a checksum attached to each packet being sent?
> how about sending a packet with the wrong checksum or something similar
> that would cause the client to wait for the packet to be re-sent or just request
> the file again?...
> 

The file gets requested again, and again, and again.  If you spawn a
process on the server each time, you will have catastrophic overload.

	-hpa