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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 22:12:56 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: FreeBSD Diskless
Message-ID:  <17219132691.20000530221256@buz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20000530160617.D28012@cs.mcgill.ca>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005301413330.28401-100000@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com> <14416104737.20000530212228@buz.ch> <20000530154947.C28012@cs.mcgill.ca> <18218370505.20000530220014@buz.ch> <20000530160617.D28012@cs.mcgill.ca>

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Hello Mathew,

Tuesday, May 30, 2000, 10:06:17 PM, you wrote:

> 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 
>         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.

Ooops. I didn't read that one (was titled PXE toolkit and as I'm not
going to build my own PROMS I simply didn't care for it)... You're right:
Licences
10 - 24 69,50 DM 35,53 EUR 37.50 US $ (each).
Still worth considering. I'll have to see if our cards have got sockets for
these.


Best regards,
 Gabriel

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