Re: Timeout values ToDo list

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:21:07AM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> Etherboot seems to be somewhat over-generous in the network delays it will 
> tolerate; it will wait up to several minutes for replies from e.g. TFTP 
> servers.  This is probably not desirable, since it appears to the user 
> that Etherboot has simply frozen.
> 
> There are various RFCs (rfc2131 and rfc1112) that are mentioned in the 
> Etherboot source as relating to timeout intervals, and the PXE 
> specification also has something to say about it.  If anyone feels like 
> digging through the specs and coming up with some reasonable adjustments 
> to our timeout algorithms, it would be very helpful.

There is now http://wiki.etherboot.org/pmwiki.php/Main/ToDo
with a TODO list which contains this item.

Could the list be linked from the the static website?


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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