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Re: TFTP get does not work with files > 40MB ?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:31:04 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Eddie Mendonca (eddiem) wrote:

> 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:

...

> I notices as the files get larger, the loss gets larger. I feel like I'm
> missing something obvious. Any remedy to this?

A first shot would of course be to try a modern curl version as changes have
been made and it now supports block-size negotiation etc, which I think is the
prerequisite for >32MB transfers.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2009-05-20