[Dnsmasq-discuss] Estimation of TFTP Server Load Capabilities

[Linux Luser]

Thanks guys. That gives me some good things to think about and prepare for.
On Jul 31, 2014 12:33 PM, "Brian Rak" <brak at gameservers.com> wrote:

>  One option here is to use iPXE ( http://www.ipxe.org/ ) to grab the
> netboot files via HTTP (or some other protocol) instead of relying on
> TFTP.  There's some extra configuration work here, but serving up the 365KB
> iPXE image to clients via TFTP is a lot less work then serving up the
> entire kernel/initrd package.
>
> On 7/23/2014 11:13 PM, Linux Luser wrote:
>
> I have a project where I use dnsmasq for netboot installs. Currently,
> there can be an unlimited number of installs happened at once. At what
> point (number of TFTP transfers happening in parallel) should I be
> concerned that I'm overtaxing dnsmasq's TFTP capabilities? Does dnsmasq use
> threads or multiprocessing for TFTP transfers?
>
> Thanks.
>
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