Syslinux - Oct 2008 - Tftp-hpa-0.48 ACKs error messages from tftp server

I have observed that the tftp-hpa-0.48 tftp client sends an ACK in
case it receives an error message from a tftp server. Inspecting the
source code confirms this behaviour.

According to the tftp RFC (RFC 1350), Sect. 2, server error messages
should not be acknowledged by the client:

"Most errors cause termination of the connection.  An error is
 signalled by sending an error packet.  This packet is not
 acknowledged ... "

Is there a separate bug reporting facility, or is this mailing list sufficient?

Regards,

/Kjeld

Kjeld Mortensen wrote:
> I have observed that the tftp-hpa-0.48 tftp client sends an ACK in
> case it receives an error message from a tftp server. Inspecting the
> source code confirms this behaviour.
> 
> According to the tftp RFC (RFC 1350), Sect. 2, server error messages
> should not be acknowledged by the client:
> 
> "Most errors cause termination of the connection.  An error is
>  signalled by sending an error packet.  This packet is not
>  acknowledged ... "
> 
> Is there a separate bug reporting facility, or is this mailing list
sufficient?
Sort of.  The bottom line is that I don't really have time to care about 
the client, so if the bug report isn't a patch, I probably won't do 
anything about it.

	-hpa