Re: [Etherboot-developers] Prism II (wireless) drivers

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

On 9 Apr 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I've been using 5.0.6 - haven't tried
> > with 5.1 yet (5.1 crashed the first time I tried it, 5.0.6 worked so I
> > started developing with the one that worked).
> For now the 5.1 branch is dead. 5.0.6 is the correct version
> to be working against.

What's the story behind this?  I assumed 5.1 was meant to be the
development branch.

> > As you might be able to guess, my aim is to have a BootROM in an RTL8139
> > card that is capable of booting the machine via either a cable plugged in
> > to the RTL8139 or, if that fails, via a wireless link using a Prism2 card.
> Cool.
> > It works! :-)
> Congratulations!
> There is some work in progress to place an MD5 signature on bootable
> images.  With the spoofabilty of network links somehow that sounds
> like a desire feature.
> Thoughts?

How would the workstation learn what the correct MD5 signature should be?
Could be sent by the DHCP server but that wouldn't help if the attacker
had his own DHCP server.


BTW, I have an EPROM programmer and am willing to burn EPROMs for anyone
in the UK (for a small fee to cover costs).

Michael