sorry about that last post... I have been using atftp as my tftp server and have found that there are security warnings about it: http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2002/sep/1005231.html & http://www.netric.org/advisories/netric-adv0101.txt I was thinking of changing to tftp-hpa but was interested to know about scaling. How many nodes could be pxebooted (kickstarted) at the same time via atftp or tftp-hpa? When is it better to use tftp-hpa vs atftp? are there advantages one has over the other? Thanks, Vallard
Vallard Benincosa wrote:> sorry about that last post... > I have been using atftp as my tftp server and have found that there are > security warnings about it: > http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2002/sep/1005231.html > & > http://www.netric.org/advisories/netric-adv0101.txt > > I was thinking of changing to tftp-hpa but was interested to know about > scaling. How many nodes could be pxebooted (kickstarted) at the same time > via atftp or tftp-hpa? When is it better to use tftp-hpa vs atftp? are > there advantages one has over the other? >atftp should scale better; tftp-hpa is more portable, and offers the regular expression file remapping feature (which atftp may want to copy.) -hpa
H. Peter Anvin wrote:>Vallard Benincosa wrote: > > >>sorry about that last post... >>I have been using atftp as my tftp server and have found that there are >>security warnings about it: >>http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2002/sep/1005231.html >>& >>http://www.netric.org/advisories/netric-adv0101.txt >> >>I was thinking of changing to tftp-hpa but was interested to know about >>scaling. How many nodes could be pxebooted (kickstarted) at the same time >>via atftp or tftp-hpa? When is it better to use tftp-hpa vs atftp? are >>there advantages one has over the other? >> >> >> > >atftp should scale better; tftp-hpa is more portable, and offers the >regular expression file remapping feature (which atftp may want to copy.) > >Oddly enough, I just sent email to the atftp maintainers today regarding the ability to remap file names. We took a different approach to file name remapping. If they are interested, I will send them our patch for inclusion. If others are interested, I will try to send it to you ( once I get it past legal ) Michael