[9fans] tftp booting

[9fans] tftp booting

[geoff]

Is tftp booting still working for anyone?

I haven't been doing it for a few months and just
tried and found it's mysteriously not working.
Upon investigation, it appears that only tftpd
and one other UDP server still use the announce/accept/listen
dance, and all the other UDP servers have been rewritten to use
a routine called openlisten that does an announce and then
just opens the data file and peers at the headers of incoming packets.

Re: [9fans] tftp booting

[andrey mirtchovski]

> Is tftp booting still working for anyone?
>

it works for me -- that's where my alpha gets its kernel from.  i
haven't tried it in the past month though.

andrey

Re: [9fans] tftp booting

[vdharani]

> Is tftp booting still working for anyone?
>
> I haven't been doing it for a few months and just
> tried and found it's mysteriously not working.
> Upon investigation, it appears that only tftpd
> and one other UDP server still use the announce/accept/listen
> dance, and all the other UDP servers have been rewritten to use
> a routine called openlisten that does an announce and then
> just opens the data file and peers at the headers of incoming packets.
>
we are using it for a bunch of machines everyday for months and we dont
have any problem. but i am not sure if a source rebuild will make it fail.

are the wires connected properly and are the ethernet LEDs fine? does
'ip/tftpd -d' give any clue? if you use dhcp client, does it get the ip
address successfully? did u try running snoopy in the server? usually, i
try these things.

thanks
dharani