[syslinux] TFTP URL support in 4.x

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/05/2010 01:46 AM, Lindgren Daniel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw this in the release notes for 4.00:
> 
> "PXELINUX: TFTP URL syntax (tftp://) supported even when not running
> gPXE/gpxelinux"
> 
> I can't find any info describing this new functionality (searched wiki
> and mailing list), I'm guessing you can now use tftp:// in the paths, e
> g:
> 
> LABEL mylabel
>   KERNEL tftp://servername/path/to/mykernel
>   APPEND myoptions
> 
> Correct?
> 
> I've been using gpxelinux for the added HTTP support (5-6 times faster
> load times than TFTP on our LAN), does the above mean that HTTP URL
> support is (or will be) integrated into pxelinux.0? That would be
> awesome, not having to use gPXE and DHCP options 209/210 to change
> transfer protocol.
> 

No, it doesn't mean that.  It's just there for syntactic compatibility.

There *might* be HTTP integrated into Syslinux at some future date
(post-Syslinux 5); it depends in part how gPXE/iPXE evolves.

	-hpa

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