Re: [Etherboot-discuss] ibautil.exe hanging with e1000 8086:107c

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

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> >If I chainload gpxe, can it still store the credentials for iscsi 
> >authentication locally on the PC, or must they be provided by DHCP?
> I thought that was the only way (DHCP), even after flashing gpxe to a 
> nic I wasn't able to make it save any config? Are there any non standard 
> requirements that maybe only some nics fulfill to allow saving a config?

Some (very few) NICs provide access to non-volatile storage on the NIC 
itself, specifically for storing configuration settings such as passwords.

Try typing "config net0.nvo"; if it doesn't work, then your NIC doesn't 
support non-volatile storage (yet).

Michael