From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 12:50: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E308C37B552 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 12:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mat@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA09654; Tue, 30 May 2000 15:49:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:49:47 -0400 From: Mathew Kanner To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Diskless Message-ID: <20000530154947.C28012@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <14416104737.20000530212228@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl's message [Re[2]: FreeBSD Diskless] as of Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:22:28PM +0200 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 30, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > 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 > > I'd like to have DEC cards they have shown to be the best for our > cases. We had some problems with 3Com so I'm sceptic. And they aren't > really cheap *g*. > > > 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. > > Ok. Will do some research on it. You can get PXE boot proms for quite a few cards. "www.bootix.com" seems to make quite a few. The only problem is that they proms cost an arm and a leg. The PXE proms from 3com are only about $17can, which isn't that bad. > Best regards, > Gabriel --Mat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message