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

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

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 boot,

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 to

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