Multicast support

[mcb30]

(2012-05-09 00:17)r_b Wrote:  First, i tried to enable MTFTP. At this point i'm a little confused because when a edit "general.h" and then this line to "#define DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTM", then I run "make bin/undionly.kpxe" and I get this message:

There's no separate enable for the multicast TFTP variants (TFTM and MTFTP). Support for these protocols is part of the general TFTP protocol support, and is enabled by default.

(2012-05-09 00:17)r_b Wrote:  Another issue is with SLAM. At ipxe.org I can't find any information about this but at http://etherboot.org/wiki/multicast, I do. But the mini-slamd file isn't at "contrib/" direcotry and I can't find it anywhere on my ipxe dir.

SLAM is supported in iPXE, but I would recommend that you do not use it. You are likely to get equivalent performance from multicast TFTP.

In general, I would recommend using an efficient unicast protocol such as HTTP instead of multicast, unless you are planning to boot thousands of nodes simultaneously.

Michael