[Dnsmasq-discuss] tftp service

[Simon Kelley]

clemens fischer wrote:
> Simon Kelley wrote:
> 
>> Lechat wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
> 
> Wouldn't creating and managing multicast groups outweigh the simplicity
> of TFTP and dnsmasq?  Are there TFTP setups using multicast?
> 
PXE supports it, for netbooting clusters of 100s or 1000s of machines.
I've never come across anybody who actually uses it. Big clusters these
days tend to have fast networks that laugh off the traffic involved in
unicasting netboot images to a few thousand machines.

Simon.