Re: HTTP Grub?

[Mario Klebsch]

Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 20:42, schrieb Joe:

> The TFTP service isn't very reliable, and it falls over with  > 32 
> nodes all requesting
> kernels/ramdisks at the same time.  HTTP is much more scalable, and 
> load can be balanced
> much more easily.

load balancing is easy, when using bootp/tftp. I have done it several 
times. Just execute the bootpd on  several machines. Execute a tftpd on 
each machine, too and configure the bootptab that the local tftp server 
is used (which is the default, unless you specify anything else). Let 
the tftp servers all serve the same files.

When the client get more than one response to their bootp request, it 
chooses the first one. If a server gets loaded, its responses usually 
will be late.

73, Mario
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