RFC's relevant to Etherboot and Netboot and tftp packet size

[Mike Hammer <mike-hammer@usa.net>]

Hi there,

So far i've found following RFC's that are relevant to bootp and tftp:

bootp: RFC951, RFC1533, RFC1084, RFC1532, RFC1534, RFC1542
tftp: RFC1350, RFC1782, RFC1783, RFC1784, RFC1785

As for Netboot, i believe it implements RFC951 and RFC1533 for bootp
and RFC1350 for tftp.  Since Netboot doesn't implement RFC1782 and
RFC1783 which are tftp extensions, it won't do any packet size >512?

As for Etherboot, i believe it supports RFC1782 and RFC1783 since
the distribution of 3.2 includes enhanced tftpd and tftp client
to take advantage of this extension.

PS. When does the tftp actually do the packet size negotiation with
    tftpd and how does it know what the maximum packet size allowed
    by tftpd?  Are all these information embedded in bootptab file
    that gets sent during bootp replies?

Regards,

-hammer