Re: HTTP Grub?

[Joe]

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.

On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 01:37  PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:

> At Wed, 1 May 2002 10:30:02 -0500,
> Joe wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Can you explain why does switching from TFTP to HTTP solve the problem?
>
> Okuji