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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:41:23 +0200
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q
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On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 02:43:46PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Would it be possible with the present status of network drivers/netboot
> > to build a diskless 100 MBit (Fast Ethernet) setup of workstations?
> > 
> > Would the Intel Etherexpress card be appropriate HW? I see an empty
> > socket on the board but it's unclear to me whether this is for an 
> > EPROM. 
> 
> it could be for an eprom but we don't have eprom support for 100
> mbit cards anyways.
> 
> the way I do it now is to use a boot floppy with a kernel on it and the
> diskless stuff that Tor Egge wrote and recently (march-april ?) was
> committed.
> 
> as an alternative you can boot off a 10mbit/s "ed"-like card and use an
> additional card for 100 mbit/s

Yeah, but I'd like the raw speed of 100MBit at bootup time also.
Would be very impressive to boot off the net in a few seconds.

> 
> 	Luigi

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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de