[openfirmware] TFTP Block Size setting?

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Fri Jun 10 04:37:57 CEST 2016


I don't have the source for AIX open boot, but in Open Firmware the
TFTP implementation is without block size support.

References:

1.
https://code.coreboot.org/p/openfirmware/source/tree/HEAD/ofw/inet/tftp.fth

2.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2348 "blksize"

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 06:20:13PM -0700, Alec wrote:
> I am attempting to do an IBM NIM install across a 20ms latency. 
> 
> Is there an ability to kick off the network boot on AIX open boot with a block
> size option for tftp from the ok? Prompt?
> 
> Forgive me if this is not an appropriate place for this.
> 
> Alec

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