The TFTP service isn't very reliable, and it falls over with > 32 nodes all requesting kernels/ramdisks at the same time. HTTP is much more scalable, and load can be balanced much more easily.
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 01:37 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > At Wed, 1 May 2002 10:30:02 -0500, > Joe wrote: >> Our tftp server is falling over with multiple machines trying to tftp >> kernels and ramdisks to boot, >> and an http-get function would easily solve this problem. How hard >> would this be to implement? > > Can you explain why does switching from TFTP to HTTP solve the problem? > > Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
