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Date:      Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:33:05 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re: Should we change dirent for 64 bit directory cookies ?
Message-ID:  <20080805153305.GB55735@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <200808051430.m75EUQkK037117@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <370602.32048.qm@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200808051430.m75EUQkK037117@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:30:26PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>  > Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > One of the problems with that is that our PXE boot loader
>  > > requires NFSv2 support, AFAIK.  If you drop NFSv2 server
>  > > support from the kernel, you can't boot PXE clients from
>  > > it anymore, unless someone adds NFSv3 support to the boot
>  > > loader.
>  >=20
>  > I see, thanks for the explanation... yes, it sounds like this will
>  > have to wait a while then. I am looking at the Intel PXE spec and
>  > there is no mention about NFS. I will investigate a bit more but I
>  > guess there is a new wish for the PXE guys ;-).
>=20
> The PXE spec is rather low-level, i.e. bascially it allows
> for handling raw packets only.  It does not implement a
> real TCP/IP stack.  So if you want to use any higher-level
> protocols, you have to implement them yourself on top of
> the PXE interface.
>=20
> Note that our bootlaoder uses libstand for the actual
> protocol implementations that are needed (BOOTP, NFS, RPC,
> TFTP).  You'll find the sources in /usr/src/lib/libstand.

A summer of code project last year implemented TCP and HTTP support.

-- Brooks

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