RE: TFTP Booting & Bandwidth

Shouldn't be a problem.  The tftp get takes about 3 seconds for a 4664 kbyte
initrd on 100 Mbit ethernet.

tftp> get pxes/pxes-0.8.initrd
Received 4775870 bytes in 2.7 seconds

So unless all your machines boot simultaneously then it shouldn't really be
an issue.  And if a whole lot do happen to gang up on the tftp server, some
will fail and try again a few seconds later.



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Subject: [pxes-devel] TFTP Booting & Bandwidth


Just a quick one this, 

How much bandwidth does a client use in booting pxes from a tftp server? I'm
looking at 40 clients, all booted around the same time (i.e. 9am), over a
100Mb link and possibly (for some sites) over a 10Mb link. How viable is
this?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

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