HTTP Grub?
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 ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
Re: HTTP Grub?
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 problem. How hard would this be to implement? 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 implemented for TFTP. 73, Mario -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8A10 2C65 C5E5 8B98 9464 53FF 9382 F518 ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
Re: HTTP Grub?
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 boot, and an http-get function would easily solve this problem. How hard would this be to implement? 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 implemented for TFTP. 73, Mario No, HTTP is independent of the transport layer. You'll have to use a HTTP server that supports UDP. Cheers, Alex ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
Re: HTTP Grub?
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
Re: HTTP Grub?
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
