Re: [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot & FTP

Dear Tolunay,

in message 41DB36C9.3080807@orkun.us you wrote:

I can think of one case where FTP would be desirable. If the host is behind a stateful firewall and TFTP Server is on the other side, the

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to attempt to run TFTP across a firewall. If you need a firewall, you don't want to have TFTP traffic running through it.

client might not be able to access the TFTP server properly. Because per

How about using NFS?

but I can see it may be needed by some. A very basic lightweight and tight TCP support could be developped for FTP support. There are some TCP implementations for really limited resource hosts.

I didn't say it is impossible. It's just unlikely to be added.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk