Re: HTTP Grub?

[Mario Klebsch]

Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 17:30, schrieb Joe:

> What are the chances of being able to get kernels/ramdisks over http 
> with grub?
> Our tftp server is falling over with multiple machines trying to tftp 
> kernels and ramdisks to boot,
> and an http-get function would easily solve this problem.  How hard 
> would this be to implement?

You have to implement TCP for it. Since TCP is not that easy to 
implement, I would suspect, is is easier to go for NFS, because it only 
needs UDP, which is already implemented for TFTP.

73, Mario
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