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

[<oscar at internap.com>]

You might want to use bpbatch, a free utility that uses multicast tftp
and pxe to send boot images (or entire hard drive images).

-- Oscar Stiffelman




Perry E. Metzger writes:
 > 
 > 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
 >