From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 12:18: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from psasolar.colltech.com (psasolar.colltech.com [208.229.236.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4662C37B58C for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:17:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@colltech.com) Received: from localhost by psasolar.colltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/not) with ESMTP id OAA29168; Tue, 30 May 2000 14:17:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:17:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "James A. Mutter" X-Sender: jmutter@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Diskless In-Reply-To: <12676686589.20000530153220@buz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is that PXE thingy worth a try, meaning should I go hunting for one of > those cards in Switzerland? I'd prefer the well known old bootroms as > those are pretty generic and therefore not bound to one vendor... > I think that PXE is probably worth a try. It's Intel's brainchild, but it seems to be catching on. Right now Intel and 3Com are adapting PXE technology on some of their cards, I'm sure that more will follow. I've been wrong about these thing before, but I suspect that PXE is here to stay, it seems to be an acceptable, generic replacement for boot roms. FYI: A quick search at Intel's site for PXE will yield plenty of reading material. Some of it good, some of it not so good. -- Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message