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and subject line Bug#804370: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #558911,
regarding pxe: all MTFTP transfers use the same multicast address and UDP port
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Package: pxe
Version: 1.4.2-7
Severity: normal
This PXE server does not allow different IP addresses or UDP
ports to be specified for MTFTP transfers of different files.
It seems to me that this limitation can cause a PXE client to
receive the wrong file over MTFTP if it boots up soon after
another client has requested a different file.
In PXE Specification Version 2.1, subsection 2.4.10 explains that
if the PXE server sends MTFTP parameters, as the Debian pxe
package always does, then the PXE client must first silently
listen for UDP packets that have the correct source IP address,
destination IP multicast address, and destination UDP port
number. If the client receives such packets before it times out,
and they look like MTFTP, it assumes they are for the correct
file. If the client receives the entire file in this way, it
does not send anything to the MTFTP server and instead just boots
the received file.
To let PXE clients reliably boot the correct files, the PXE
server should allow a separate IP multicast address and/or UDP
port number to be specified for each boot file. If using atftpd,
the same addresses and port numbers would then have to be listed
in the file given to atftpd --mtftp <file>.
I mailed upstream about this on 2009-11-25 but didn't hear back yet.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages pxe depends on:
ii adduser 3.99 Add and remove users and groups
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages pxe recommends:
ii atftpd 0.7-9 advanced TFTP server
pn dhcp3-server | dnsmasq <none> (no description available)
pn syslinux <none> (no description available)
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.4.2-7+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package pxe has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/804370
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Luca Falavigna (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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