[syslinux] Making tftpd (hpa) firewall frienldy

[cgm mgc]

It seems to work fine, because tftpd does a connect which tells kernel to
send packets for udp 'sessions' to the right proccess.
Anyway it was more like a POC ..

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> wrote:

>
> Did you test what happens if you compile with this option when you're _not_
> trying to make all the traffic happen on the tftp port?  I'd expect it to
> break the port-selection algorithm some of the time.  For that matter, I
> would not expect the usage you describe to work well with multiple transfers
> going on at once.
>
> If this is going to go in, I think it needs to be controlled by a runtime
> option.  A server that always had the behavior implemented by your patch
> would probably not be a good thing.
>
> -- Jeff
>
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