whwb@ciba-geigy.ch (Hans W. Barz) (12/04/90)
I am looking for a PC TCP/IP/NFS software (PC/NFS, FTP, Beame&Whiteside, ...) which includes a boot-Protocol for a PC. By this I mean, that the PC needs no longer any local disk or discette and come us by its own. In case such a software/hardware is not delivered by one of the the NFS manufacturers, it might also be possible to have something additional from another manufacturer. Hans W. Barz, R.1045.3.34, CIBA-GEIGY, 4002 Basel, Switzerland Internet/uucp-Mail: whwb@CIBA-GEIGY.CH X.400: C=CH;A=ARCOM;P=CIBA-GEIGY;OU=CHCGBS30;S=BARZ;G=HANS;I=W phone: +41/61/6974520 fax: +41/61/6973288
dirk@dksoft.incom.de (Dirk Koeppen) (12/06/90)
whwb@ciba-geigy.ch (Hans W. Barz) writes: > I am looking for a PC TCP/IP/NFS software (PC/NFS, FTP, Beame&Whiteside, ...) > which includes a boot-Protocol for a PC. By this I mean, that the PC needs > no longer any local disk or discette and come us by its own. In case such a > software/hardware is not delivered by one of the the NFS manufacturers, it > might also be possible to have something additional from another manufacturer. We have developed a PROM that plugs into the ROM socket of the Ethernet controller and enables to diskless boot from a TCP/IP host. The ROM is available for Racal Interlan NI6510, Western Digital WD8003/8013 and 3Com 3C503 controllers. Also it has been verified to support the network products FTP/Software PC/TCP and InterDrive, Beame&Whiteside NFS, Sun Microsystems PC-NFS and Locus Computing PC-Interface. The Internet protocols used by the PROM are BOOTP to get the network addresses and bootstrap information from a server. To download MS-DOS and the network software from a server the TFTP protocol is used. The ROM comes with all support for MS-DOS, beside a customer of our has modified the AT&T System V/386 Rel. 4 kernel that way that it diskless boots UNIX with the TCP/IP BOOT-PROM. best regards, dirk -- .............. ............. ........... .......... ........ Dirk Koeppen - Holzwiesenweg 22 - D-6050 Offenbach - Germany ....... ..... Phone: +49 69 89 3000 - FAX: +49 69 89 3004 - uucp: dirk@incom.de .....