Re: HTTP Grub?

[Joe]

I'll give it a try.  In the past when we've tried other tftp servers, 
they haven't worked with pxe.

On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 02:34  PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> At Wed, 1 May 2002 13:42:45 -0500,
> Joe wrote:
> > The TFTP service isn't very reliable, and it falls over with  > 32 
> > nodes
> > all requesting
> > kernels/ramdisks at the same time.  HTTP is much more scalable, and 
> > load
> > can be balanced
> > much more easily.
>
> If your problem is only on the load, using a better TFTP server would
> satisfy you, I think. I don't know what server you use, but I'd
> recommend Advanced TFTP, since it is multi-threaded and you can set
> the maximum number of threads arbitrarily. I haven't tested this
> actually, but they claim that ATFTP is capable of serving large
> clusters.
>
> Okuji