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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 16:06:17 -0400
From:      Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Diskless
Message-ID:  <20000530160617.D28012@cs.mcgill.ca>
In-Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl's message [Re[2]: FreeBSD Diskless] as of Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:00:14PM %2B0200
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On May 30, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> >         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.
> 
> BootManageŽ PXE Prom for Ethernet
> Part Number: 90521-xxx* 
> Unit Price/Unit Price/Unit Price/Unit 
> 1 31,00 DM 15,85 EUR  16.75 US $ 
> 
> I Wouldn't call that very expensive... (especially as local store
> wanted to have 25 SFr. for the 3Com ones as well) OK, it's the same price as a
> whole Realtek NIC would cost but who cares? If I get such a remote boot
> thingy up, I'd never again have to do the same updates on different
> machines. That would be even worth 200$/machine, IMHO.

	To be honest, I haven't visited them for a while.  I just
remeber that you needed a license to go along with the prom and the
licenses were 2-3x the price of the rom itself.

	--Mat


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