[syslinux] atftpd versus tftpd-hpa

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Gene Cumm wrote:
> It seems that tftpd-hpa is more suitable at serving arbitrarily large
> files (greater than 65535 blocks long; with pxelinux.0 using a default
> block size of 1408 this is 92,273,280 bytes) as atftpd will complain
> in the log stating "Requested file to big, increase BLKSIZE".  I saw
> that a while back HPA mentioned that atftpd was probably more scalable
> (number of clients) while tftpd-hpa is more portable.  It looks like
> tftpd-hpa supports block number rollover while atftpd doesn't seem to
> (unless it's a runtime option that I can't find or a compile time
> option).
> 
> On the flip side, files this big are probably more suitably handled by
> another means (gpxelinux.0 rather than pxelinux.0 with the large data
> files on a standard web server).
> 
> -- 
> -Gene

I think atftpd-0.7_circumvent_tftp_size_restrictions.patch [1] fixes the issue.

[1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-commit/2008-09/msg00732.html 

Sebastian