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

To: Tripp Lilley <tlilley at PERSPEX.COM>
Subject: Re: MTFTP, PXE, remote boot, and all that jazz
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>
Date: 23 Sep 1999 16:49:03 -0400
Cc: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald at Alvestrand.no>, ietf at ietf.org
In-reply-to: Tripp Lilley's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:44:30 -0400 (EDT)"
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990923154210.12011D-100000@mail.perspex.com>

Tripp Lilley <tlilley at PERSPEX.COM> writes:
> 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 :-)

There is an RFC (RFC1235) for an easy to implement experimental
protocol called CFDP which might be the trick for you. It is not a
general solution but it probably will do what you are looking for in
this particular instance.

Perry

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