Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:41:23 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q Message-ID: <19970926164123.16634@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199709261243.OAA00131@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 02:43:46PM %2B0200 References: <199709261340.PAA06145@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <199709261243.OAA00131@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 02:43:46PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Would it be possible with the present status of network drivers/netboot > > to build a diskless 100 MBit (Fast Ethernet) setup of workstations? > > > > Would the Intel Etherexpress card be appropriate HW? I see an empty > > socket on the board but it's unclear to me whether this is for an > > EPROM. > > it could be for an eprom but we don't have eprom support for 100 > mbit cards anyways. > > the way I do it now is to use a boot floppy with a kernel on it and the > diskless stuff that Tor Egge wrote and recently (march-april ?) was > committed. > > as an alternative you can boot off a 10mbit/s "ed"-like card and use an > additional card for 100 mbit/s Yeah, but I'd like the raw speed of 100MBit at bootup time also. Would be very impressive to boot off the net in a few seconds. > > Luigi -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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