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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies)
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In-Reply-To: <19970926164123.16634@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 26, 97 04:41:04 pm
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> 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.

are you volunteering to write the code ? :)

In any case even at 10 mbit/s your boot time is 2-4 seconds, most of
the time is spent afterwards in probing non-existent devices.

	Cheers
	Luigi