The reason I ask is because gpxe sometimes fails when using http to build vSphere ESXi 4.0 guest (sometimes it works. When it failed, it has message "connection reset" 0f0a6039), but it always works if using tftp (gpxe server is also a VM guest).
Found this URL: http://ipxe.org/err/0f0a6039 Not sure what could be wrong in this case .. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Michael Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011 20:54:30 hai wu wrote: > > Just for downloading files like vmlinuz/initrd.img, wouldn't it be better > > to use tftp instead of using http when the image files would be very > > large? > > (Redirected to [email protected]) > > HTTP will generally scale better than TFTP. The possible exception is when > simultaneously multicasting an image to multiple clients. > > Michael >
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