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From: Joe Greco <jgfbsd@solaria.sol.net>
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Subject: DEC 21140-AC (SMC EtherPower 10/100 9332BDT)
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 15:25:08 CST
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Hi,

The "new" SMC EtherPower 10/100 card has a socket for a _flash_ ROM.  :-)

It appears that SMC provides a ROM with something called "BootWare", that
apparently is designed to ease the difficulty of doing diskless stuff..

>From the manual,

TCP/IP Mode

* TCP/IP mode requires a TFTP daemon and a BOOTP daemon to be loaded at
  the host.  Most versions of DOS can be remote booted, along with a
  communication service such as NFS.

For whatever that is worth.

... JG