Re: [Etherboot-developers] TFTP block size

Shao Miller <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:06:13 -0500
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>
> ...slight PXE
> incompliancy on gPXE side. According to PXE spec the packet size in
> TFTP_OPEN call specifies the maximum side of packet PXE should try to
> negotiate and gPXE seems to ignore this. Perhaps gPXE should resplit the
> packets if application specified short block size? (I don't think an app
> really needs to be aware of real packet size on network, just how octet
> stream is split into packet for READ call)
>
Thanks for the report, Vladimir.  It's been added to 
http://support.etherboot.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=39

- Shao Miller

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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
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  <p><font size=3D"2">...slight PXE<br>
incompliancy on gPXE side. According to PXE spec the packet size in<br>
TFTP_OPEN call specifies the maximum side of packet PXE should try to<br>
negotiate and gPXE seems to ignore this. Perhaps gPXE should resplit the<br>
packets if application specified short block size? (I don't think an app<br>
really needs to be aware of real packet size on network, just how octet<br>
stream is split into packet for READ call)</font></p>
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Thanks for the report, Vladimir.=C2=A0 It's been added to
<a href=3D"http://support.etherboot.org/index.php?do=3Ddetails&task_id=3D39=
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=3Ddetails&amp;task_id=3D39</a><br>
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- Shao Miller<br>
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