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

[Tripp Lilley <tlilley at perspex.com>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> 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.

All right, I can accept all of this :-) Are there any recommended
alternatives? My application is (as you might have guessed) blasting
identical drive images (several hundred MB) to about 90 machines coming up
around the same time. Is there a multicast bulk transfer protocol that
would be good for this? Obviously, reliable transfer is an issue :-)

BTW: In my limited current application, all of the machines are on the
same IP subnet.

Thanks!

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