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Re: HTTP Grub?
From: |
Alex Thiel |
Subject: |
Re: HTTP Grub? |
Date: |
Wed, 1 May 2002 19:13:51 +0200 |
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