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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 1999 15:17:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
To:        dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netbooting on fxp0?
Message-ID:  <199910082217.PAA68029@whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <14334.24410.547615.160531@trooper.velocet.net> from David Gilbert at "Oct 8, 99 05:17:14 pm"

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David Gilbert writes:
| The current batch of IBM etherjets (probe as fxp0) have dhcp-enabled
| boot ROMs built into them.  What is required to support these, or has
| someone worked on this already.   100Mb cards could make a decent
| diskless workstation/server.

Look at ports/net/etherboot.  It supports fxp0 and booting FreeBSD ELF
kernels as well as Linux and DOS.

Doug A.


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