Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-02 Thread Mario Klebsch
Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 20:42, schrieb Joe: > 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. load balancing is easy, when using

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-02 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:40:36PM -0500, Joe wrote: > I'll give it a try. In the past when we've tried other tftp servers, > they haven't worked with pxe. Look for atftp. Or use Intel's mtftp (multicast tftp) along with atftp. I've not gotten atftp's mtftp support to work yet. Cheers, Matt

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Joe
I'll give it a try. In the past when we've tried other tftp servers, they haven't worked with pxe. On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 02:34 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > At Wed, 1 May 2002 13:42:45 -0500, > Joe wrote: >> The TFTP service isn't very reliable, and it falls over with > 32 >> node

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Wed, 1 May 2002 13:42:45 -0500, Joe wrote: > 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. If your problem is only on the load, using a

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Alex Thiel
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 19:36, Mario Klebsch wrote: > Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 19:13, schrieb Alex Thiel: > > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:26, Mario Klebsch wrote: > >> You have to implement TCP for it. Since TCP is not that easy to > >> implement, I would suspect, is is easier to go for N

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Joe
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 -0

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Mario Klebsch
Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 19:13, schrieb Alex Thiel: > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:26, Mario Klebsch wrote: >> You have to implement TCP for it. Since TCP is not that easy to >> implement, I would suspect, is is easier to go for NFS, because it only >> needs UDP, which is already implement

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Alex Thiel
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:26, Mario Klebsch wrote: > Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 17:30, schrieb Joe: > > What are the chances of being able to get kernels/ramdisks over http > > with grub? > > Our tftp server is falling over with multiple machines trying to tftp > > kernels and ramdisks to

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Mario Klebsch
Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 17:30, schrieb Joe: > What are the chances of being able to get kernels/ramdisks over http > with grub? > 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 pro

HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Joe
What are the chances of being able to get kernels/ramdisks over http with grub? 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? Joe