Re: HTTP Grub?

[Alex Thiel]

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:26, Mario Klebsch wrote:
> Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 17:30, schrieb Joe:
> > What are the chances of being able to get kernels/ramdisks over http
> > with grub?
> > Our tftp server is falling over with multiple machines trying to tftp
> > kernels and ramdisks to boot,
> > and an http-get function would easily solve this problem.  How hard
> > would this be to implement?
>
> You have to implement TCP for it. Since TCP is not that easy to
> implement, I would suspect, is is easier to go for NFS, because it only
> needs UDP, which is already implemented for TFTP.
>
> 73, Mario

No, HTTP is independent of the transport layer. You'll have to use a HTTP 
server that supports UDP.

Cheers,

        Alex