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Date:      26 Aug 1998 12:44:58 +0200
From:      Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko), tege@matematik.su.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netboot
Message-ID:  <87hfz010ph.fsf@olymp.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of Wed, 26 Aug 1998 02:44:47 %2B0200 (MET DST)
References:  <199808260044.CAA02239@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> writes:

> a few questions to those who have looked at this code:
>     1) which cards does etherboot support ?

The same cards that Netboot also supports, plus the Intel EtherExpress
card.

>     2) how hard would it be to make etherboot compilable under FreeBSD ?

You would have to duplicate some of Linux's /usr/include/linux header
files.

>     3) what "nice features" are you referring to except the 100Mbit
>        support ? about last 1yr ago we managed to make netboot get all
>        of its data from bootpd without having the annoying TFTP
>        configuration file -- that was in my opinion a significant
>        improvement.

I don't know what Doug referred to here, but what do you have against
TFTP?

Michael
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