[syslinux] tftpd-hpa feature suggestion

omri omri.il at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 19:46:43 PDT 2007


On 6/7/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> The file gets requested again, and again, and again.  If you spawn a
> process on the server each time, you will have catastrophic overload.

Well, the server could ignore the requests from the same client for
the same file untill the execution is done. Once it's done. it'll be
delivered to the next request (or to the current active one).

One more thing, isn't the boot.txt file being requested by pxelinux?
doesn't that mean that the tftp client implementation is yours (or you
have the source for it)?
If you do, can't you make pxelinux wait enough for the file to be
generated and deliverer?

Another idea is to implement another protocol (http perhaps?), but I
guess that's too much hassle.




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