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From: Peter L. <P.L...@sy...> - 2002-12-12 10:09:12
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Congratulations Matthew. > Great. If you like reading the PXE spec, maybe you can do Etherboot on top of > PXE's UNDI without using an Etherboot's native network driver :). The Etherboot driver would in fact be written for PXE's *UDP* interface, not UNDI. Eric B pointed out my loose terminology: no-one needs UNDI per se unless genuinely implementing a new network protocol (not UDP/IP). We want the PXE driver abstraction, but we don't have to use it directly. > This, of course, is an option in addition to using the native driver. A generic image with multiple drivers could use PXE as a default: it is fine for simple cases and new hardware; anyone who finds it restrictive (e.g. by having multiple NICs or wanting better multicast) can load the native driver for the nic(s) via tftp. That way everyone is happy. :) |
