[Dnsmasq-discuss] TFTP logging strangeness

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Tue Sep 21 11:11:46 BST 2010


Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> writes:
>> 
>>> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, but do you agree that "sent /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.0" shouldn't
>>>> have been logged above (and below)?
>>>
>>> agreed, and changed. That message is only logged when the transfer
>>> completes.  The slight downside to this is that some clients never
>>> acknowledge the final block, which means that the message won't
>>> appear until the transfer times out after waiting for that final
>>> ACK.
>> 
>> I find that quite acceptable.  At the same time I'd appreciate if the
>> corresponding timeout message pointed out that only the final ACK was
>> missing, so the file was actually sent in full.
>
> The timeout error is suppressed if only the final ACK is missing.

That's fine, too.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.



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