Re: hint on starting tftpd -r

2013-02-26 Thread David Gwynne
On 24/02/2013, at 11:38 AM, russell wrote: > On 02/24/2013 11:32 PM, David Gwynne wrote: >> what are you using the rewrite stuff for? >> > netbooting. me too! we unconditionally netboot all our labs (and most of our staff machines). by default we want netboot to fall out back to booting off t

Re: hint on starting tftpd -r

2013-02-25 Thread russell
On 02/24/2013 11:32 PM, David Gwynne wrote: what are you using the rewrite stuff for? netbooting. pxeboot is unable to pick a kernel based on machine. and as I run an oddball mix of current/stable i386/amd64 (and sparc64 but it does not count as ofwboot.net does specify kernel) so I use tft

Re: hint on starting tftpd -r

2013-02-24 Thread David Gwynne
what are you using the rewrite stuff for? On 23/02/2013, at 5:45 PM, russell wrote: > So I am using tftpd -r and my rewrite script works however I am at a > loss as to the best way to start tftpd. > > From my experiments, the rewrite engine has to start before tftpd, tftpd > expects the sock

Re: hint on starting tftpd -r

2013-02-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-02-23, russell wrote: > So I am using tftpd -r and my rewrite script works however I am > at a loss as to the best way to start tftpd. > > From my experiments, the rewrite engine has to start before tftpd, > tftpd expects the socket to exist. however tftpd is started rather > earlier

hint on starting tftpd -r

2013-02-24 Thread russell
So I am using tftpd -r and my rewrite script works however I am at a loss as to the best way to start tftpd. From my experiments, the rewrite engine has to start before tftpd, tftpd expects the socket to exist. however tftpd is started rather earlier in /etc/rc than than a "pkg_scripts" rc.d