If you have problems with clients failing to download, decrease this value by 128 at a time until it works. 1456 is the largest packet size the Ethernet supports. The larger the packet size the faster your transfers will go. This specifies the packet size that the TFTP Server will use. If you do not specify a thread pool size, TFTP Server will default to keeping 1 thread open and then open more as needed. You can specify the number of threads to keep open under the section with the line "ThreadPoolSize=16" where 16 will be replaced with the number of threads you want to remain open. If more clients connect than we have open threads, new threads are opened on an as-needed basis and then closed when they are done. To slightly speed up initial connections, you can reserve a certain number of threads to remain open even after the client has finished so that it can be ready to immediately assist another client. This allows it to run at optimal performance. (Optional) TFTP Server will create a new thread for each client that connects to it and close the thread when the client is done.
OPEN TFTP SERVER CONFIGURE FREE
If this option is not specified, then any free port is used. You can specify this under the section with the line "port-range=30000-30100" (without quotes) where 30000 will be replaced with the lowest port to use (do not use ports less than 1024) and where 30100 will be replaced with the highest port to use. (Optional) If you have a firewall enabled between your clients and the PXE server, you can specify a port range for the server to use when it sends data to the clients. If you leave this section empty, then all clients are allowed. This will deny all TFTP requests from any IP Address that is not in a range specified as an allowed client. (Optional) To increase security, you can add IP Address ranges to the section. For example: "C:\Program Files\Altiris\Altiris Agent\Agents\Deployment\Task Handler\SBS\Images" (without quotes).
OPEN TFTP SERVER CONFIGURE INSTALL
In the section (any line after "" and before ""), add a line containing the path to the Images folder in your PXE Server's install directory. If you are comfortable with specifying an IP Address to listen on, you can do so here, otherwise leave the section blank. If you do not specify any IP Address, the TFTP Server will listen on all Interfaces. You should specify the same IP Address that PXE is configured to use. In the section, you can specify which IP Address(es) to use for servicing TFTP. Open "C:\Program Files\OpenTFTPServer\OpenTFTPServerMT.ini" Just remember to use that path later in this document whenever the path "C:\Program Files\OpenTFTPServer" is referenced. On the first page, you can change the default path. You can install TFTP Server to any directory you want and it will have no problems working with Symantec netBoot Server.ĭownload and run OpenTFTPServerMTInstallerV1.62.exe on your PXE Server. TFTP Server is very lightweight, and the install is fairly straightforward. Last, you will modify the Symantec netBoot Mtftp service to load the new TFTP Server. Next, you will configure TFTP Server to optimize it and make it compatible with Symantec netBoot Server. In order to take advantage of the increased performance of TFTP Server, you will need to Install TFTP Server for Windows. You can learn more about TFTP Server (and even contribute to the open-source project if you want to) at their web site. In my tests, my PXE boot speed nearly doubled when I replaced the built-in TFTP server with this one. One in particular, "Open TFTP Server" is written very efficiently and is multithreaded to optimize performance. There are a handful of free open-source TFTP servers. You can substitute the Symantec netBoot Mtftp service with almost any TFTP server. You can improve the PXE boot transfer speed by replacing the Symantec netBoot Mtftp service with a higher performance TFTP server. Symantec netBoot Mtftp service is responsible for making PXE boot files available to clients. I have had some interest in doing the same on Deployment Solution 7.1. A lot of people have had good results using Open TFTP Server with Deployment Solution 6.9.