Re: [Etherboot-developers] http/dns (was: List of NICs by popularity)

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Hello Ken,

>>Ah, yet another incentive for getting HTTP support working on 5.2. If
>>Debian's URL was hardcoded in the Etherboot image (I know, this is 
>>normally frowned upon), the kernel could be loaded directly from 
>>Debian's server. All the user needed would be a DHCP server and the 
>>Etherboot floppy.

> Except that I don't think the Debian project would appreciate one server
> getting all the hits. So Debian should probably start a debian-o-matic
> site and ask the user for the region in addition to asking for the NIC.

They could build a menu.nbi that does this for them. It would be
reasonably small and thus be comparative to the user hitting
www.debian.org with their browser before they find out what their
mirror is called exactly.

Does etherboot support loading over network boundaries at all, e.g.
select the specified "routers" entry from the dhcp response if the
requested ip is obviously out of range? That is one of the things I
thought about on my long train ride home this evening...

Do 5.2 and 5.0.11 support (if the proto is compiled in) URLs to be
specified, e.g.
tftp:// [<serverip> [:<port>]] / <filename>
nfs:// [<serverip>] / <filename>
?

How far did multicast support get?

Should we have support for dns resolution?
- Yes we should, if not only for the debian case! They could have e.g.
  etherboot-install.debian.org revolving A record to all of their http
  servers or so!

Best regards,
 Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
 Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service
 <an...@ho...>

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