From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 13: 6:37 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 251E537B5CB for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 13:06:29 -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 QAA10165; Tue, 30 May 2000 16:06:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:06:17 -0400 From: Mathew Kanner To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: Mathew Kanner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Diskless Message-ID: <20000530160617.D28012@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <14416104737.20000530212228@buz.ch> <20000530154947.C28012@cs.mcgill.ca> <18218370505.20000530220014@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl's message [Re[2]: FreeBSD Diskless] as of Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:00:14PM +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: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message