On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Thomas Narten wrote:Well, I wasn't all that clear in my first note either! I'm really hoping for the same. I'd be happy to support load balancing, but only if was a real requirement coming from the folk who are using netboot and have experience with it. Otherwise, I'd prefer that we keep things simple. I may be speaking out of turn here, but I think that the fact that this draft explicitly recommends http over tftp for downloading the boot file will solve a lot of the load problems that exist with the current DHCP/tftp boot mechanism in DHCPv4. As I understand it, the primary problem with netbooting in IPv4 is that tftp is such a low-performance solution (due to the lock-step nature of the protocol), not that tftp boot servers get overloaded during power events. |