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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:08:33 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas index.sgml
Message-ID:  <200702161908.33928.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702161123.l1GBNZSD076510@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200702161123.l1GBNZSD076510@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Friday 16 February 2007 06:23, Robert Watson wrote:
>   Note that the PXE HTTP idea requires someone to implement TCP in pxeboot,
>   add networking experience on the requirements list.

It may be worse than that even.  PXE provides native UDP support in the BIOS
and pxeboot uses that.  I do think there is a way to send and receive
raw packets rather than UDP,  but now you are talking about implementing
not just TCP, but IP, arp, etc.  If you booted a kernel with an mfsroot that
used an init program that talked to an HTTP server that might be a different
matter.

-- 
John Baldwin



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