Re: MTFTP, PXE, remote boot, and all that jazz

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald at Alvestrand.no>]

At 16:01 22.09.99 -0400, Tripp Lilley wrote:
> I've looked on altavista for multicast TFTP (RFC 2090) implementions and
> have come up with not so much (though I admit my choices of search terms,
> and my lack of patience for wading through results, may be the cause).

The more probable reason is that RFC 2090 was a half-baked idea, and most 
people who considered implementing it found (either while reading the specs 
or while trying it out) discovered the problems with it.

(Problem set includes:
- TFTP's problems wrt security and flow control
- multicast address management
- lack of rules for handling failing master clients
There are surely more.)

                        Harald A


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