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Re: First experience with Netboot 0.6.0 remote booting



Hello,

markus@infoscape.com wrote:
> "Etherboot" exponentially increases the timeout between retries, while
> also introducing some randomization. This technique is suggested for
> most network related timeout handling and usually helps to deal
> gracefully with resource starvations. I do not know whether "netboot"
> uses a similar algorithm.

Yep, netboot uses a similar algorithm.

gero.

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