[Dnsmasq-discuss] tftp service
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu May 27 22:22:59 BST 2010
Lechat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I couldn't determine by reading the man pages or searching the list if
> dnsmasq's TFTP service is multicast enabled or just unicast.
It's unicast only.
>
> If 10 clients request the same tftp boot at the same time to dnsmasq,
> will they use 10 unicast connections ?
They will use 10 connections. Requests for the same file will only
open it once, however, which saves half the file descriptors which would
otherwise be used.
HTH
Simon.
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