Re: [Etherboot-developers] NBP Help

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"Rajesh Shantaram Patharkar" <raj...@ta...> writes:

> Hi,
>    I have gone through some part of this Etherboot docs. For me it seems
> that(Looking at documents) etherboot and PXE are same.
>    Is it true? if not what are the difference between Etherboot and PXE.

Mostly etherboot implements  standard DHCP and TFTP and handles any
image size.  In particular I can load a whole image in one pass.
Resulting in subsecond boot times.  

PXE has some embrace and extend going on, above standard DHCP && TFTP,
as well as complicated a set of API for the NBP.  etherboot doesn't
limit the initial image.  

Extending etherboot to be a PXE a server would be o.k. as long as it
didn't mess up the code.  

That is the other big difference etherboot as an open source project
and be extended and fixed, and is generally not buggy.

Eric