cpw%sneezy@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood) (01/29/88)
> Is anyone out there booting PCs using tftp? Is it possible to cram tftp > into the 8K that is available on the NI5210 (for example)? Ignore this if you just want an answer to your question. This is just an anecdote: Sun put out some strange software early on which, after all was said and done, caused some client machines to request a boot from an IBM pc on another LAN connected via a Sun acting as an IP router. This essentially froze the pc (due to numerous ethernet interrupts) not to mention the client which could not boot. We put some software in the PC to send back a junk "vmunix" which shut the client up for a while. Phil Wood Los Alamos National Laboratory
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (01/27/99)
Is anyone out there booting PCs using tftp? Is it possible to cram tftp into the 8K that is available on the NI5210 (for example)? We want to be able to boot machines from anywhere on our network. Floppies won't do for three reasons: the license restricts the operating system to a single machine, users need access to machines that they don't have an operating system for, and users can't be trusted not to trash floppies. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AT&T: (315)268-6591 BITNET: NELSON@CLUTX Internet: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu GEnie: BH01 Compu$erve: 70441,205