I-D ACTION:draft-rfced-exp-yung-00.txt

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	Title		: TFTP Multicast Option
	Author(s)	: W. Yung
	Filename	: draft-rfced-exp-yung-00.txt
	Pages		: 6
	Date		: 06-May-98
	
The Trivial File Transfer Protocol [1] is a simple, lock-step, file
transfer protocol which allows a client to get or put a file onto a
remote host.
 
This document describes a new TFTP option. This new option will allow
the multiple client to receive the same file concurrently through the
use of Multicast packets. The TFTP Option Extension mechanism is
described in [2].
 
Often when similar computers are booting remotely they will each
download the same image file. By adding multicast into the TFTP option
set, two or more computers can download a file concurrently, thus
increasing network efficiency.
 
This document assumes that the reader is familiar with the terminology
and notation of both [1] and [2].


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