[U-Boot-Users] tftp errors/times out on large files

[mitsy]

Thank you Tolunay. Since nfs isn't an option for what I'm doing (as
Andrew suggested yesterday,) I think I need to either add gzip
decompression support and/or modify tftp to support larger files.



On 8/14/06, Tolunay Orkun <listmember at orkun.us> wrote:
> mitsy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am having problem tftping large files (>30M.) The tftp will start
> > download, and then immediately get an error, and it will say:
> > (snip)
> > and repeat. I can download smaller files just fine. What could it be
> > the problem? Increasing the MALLOC_LEN doesn't seem to help, and I
> > need some advice. (FYI, I have 128M ram.)
> >
> > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
>
> The original TFTP protocol is limited to file sizes of 32MB. A later RFC
>   compliant TFTP allows file sizes of up to 4GB but I am not sure if
> U-Boot and/or your TFTP server implements the new RFC. Details are in
> Wikipedia.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol
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