On 20. Feb 2012, at 20:09 , Ed Maste wrote: > After upgrading a diskless boot server from FreeBSD 6 to 8 I see an error > message logged each time a diskless client boots: > > Feb 20 00:56:38 TPC-D4-35 tftpd[55229]: Got ERROR packet: TFTP Aborted > > It turns out that the pxeboot client (from Intel) first performs a TFTP > read request with the tsize option to which it receives an acknowledgement > containing the size of the file to be transferred. Then it sends back > an error response to abort the transfer, and sends the read request again > (without the tsize option). > > The sequence of packets is: > > 1. C->S TFTP Read Request, File: pxeboot, Transfer type: octet, tsize=0 > 2. S->C TFTP Option Acknowledgement, tsize=239616 > 3. C->S TFTP Error Code, Code: Not defined, Message: TFTP Aborted > 4. C->S TFTP Read Request, File: pxeboot, Transfer type: octet, blksize=1456 > 5. S->C TFTP Option Acknowledgement, blksize=1456 > 6. C->S TFTP Acknowledgement, Block: 0 > 7. S->C TFTP Data Packet, Block: 1 > ... > > I'd like to avoid logging the error here, for the sake of this pxeboot > client and any other tftp clients that might check options without actually > starting a transfer. Anyone opposed to removing it? (A proposed patch is > at http://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/tftpd.diff).
Rather than completely ignoring it, can we log it in a different category, so that one would actually still have a chance to see real "abort" errors? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
