Re: [Etherboot-users] UNDIS3C driver

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Where can I get some clear info on what the UNDIS3C is?  Knoppix has a
> TS option, which first makes you pic out what NICs should be added to
> the kernel that is PXE loaded.  It seems like if the kernel can be pxe
> loaded, it should just use the existing connection.
> 
> What am I missing?

PXE stacks are very low performance compared to a normal kernel network
driver.  While it would be perfectly feasible to write a "pxe" kernel
driver that used an underlying PXE stack, it's not a good idea.

Michael