[syslinux] [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH] Activating FTP for gpxe on Syslinux 3.72-pre1

[Geert Stappers]

Op 20080904 om 01:50 schreef Michael Brown:
> On Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:21:08 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Could we just activate FTP on gpxe ?
> > > I did a trivial patch for enabling it on top of 3.72-pre1.
> >
> > I would prefer if the upstream default was changed, too, but I'm not
> > adverse to changing it if the upstream doesn't want to.
> 
> I don't have a strong feeling either way; I had assumed that nowadays ftp was 
> something of a niche protocol, so left it disabled by default to save space.  
> I could be convinced otherwise.

For what it is worth:

 On the mailinglist Debian-boot there was a posting for someone
 from a asian country where HTTP was locked (or limited) by the
 goverment and his request was to re-enable FTP download for the
 debian-installer.


Geert Stappers