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I'm unsure why PXE cannot be a reliable network service just as DHCP or DNS. It can be clustered and made reliable as any other system can. You can also load
by bretpiatt 13y ago
I'm unsure why PXE cannot be a reliable network service just as DHCP or DNS. It can be clustered and made reliable as any other system can. You can also load balance and distribute out the PXE traffic in the event of a full refresh of all nodes just fine.
- stephengillie 13y agoI don't get this either. PXE is a few special DNS settings & a TFTP server & a very small boot file. The concept has been around since before 2001, yet it's treated like some kind of weird voodoo. Using PXE in your environment means you have to feck around with DNSmasq, or manually configure DNS, or use enterprise-level bloatware.
- baruch 13y agoTFTP is a UDP based file transfer protocol that uses a stop-and-wait and a simple retry loop, if you use only that you risk hitting congestion very fast and having a hard time to fix it. The suggestions above to use iPXE and switch to TCP transfer methods such as HTTP make a lot of sense in that aspect.