[syslinux] tftpd-hpa feature suggestion

Andrew Stuart andrew at shopcusa.com
Fri Jun 8 20:53:56 PDT 2007


omri wrote:
> 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.
>   

http://wiki.freebsd.org/http_support_for_PXE

Possibly unrelated, but possibly worth keeping an eye on as well.

-A




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