[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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