--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Eddie Mendonca (eddiem) <eddiem_at_cisco.com> wrote:

> From: Eddie Mendonca (eddiem) <eddiem_at_cisco.com>
> Subject: TFTP get does not work with files > 40MB ?
> To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 10:48 PM
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> Hello,
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> I’m
> using CURL 7.16.2.  I’m aware of the old 32Mb TFTP
> file size limitation,
> but my TFTP server supports large files.  Using command
> line tftp I’m
> able to get a file over 600Mb from the same server, witout
> loosing any bytes. 
> But using curl, if the file is over 40Mb it starts loosing
> bytes.  Here you can
> see I pulled a file that was 40Mb:
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> # curl
> tftp://acsview-build1/40mbfile >
> /tmp/40mbfile
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>     %
> Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  
> Time    Time     Time  Current
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> Dload  Upload   Total  
> Spent    Left  Speed
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> 0    0     0    0     0      0     
> 0 --:--:--  0:00:58 --:--:--     0
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> # ll
> /tmp/40mbfile
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> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 40001150 May 19 21:41
> /tmp/40mbfile
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> TFTP-pulled file shows 40001150 bytes, but listing the file
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> acsview-build1:/tftpboot> ll /tftpboot/40mbfile
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> -rw-r--r--  1 eddiem eng 40001662 May 19 21:40
> /tftpboot/40mbfile
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> acsview-build1:/tftpboot>
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> notices as the files get larger, the loss gets larger.  I
> feel like I’m
> missing something obvious.  Any remedy to this?
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> Eddie
> Mendonça       Software Engineer, Cisco Systems
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> eddiem_at_cisco.com  
> Office: 408-527-5885
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AFAIK it's protocol limitation, and it is even smaller - 34 MBytes.

Regards,
  Sergei.

      
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Received on 2009-05-20