On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Is dhcp/bootp a required part of this whole schema? It seems like, if i already know my ip address and the address of the tftp server, i should be able to enter them at boot time if i want to. Or am i missing something?
> frigidcode.com
> Sent from my HTC
It is for PXE, but not for other platforms. Systems like the IBM pSeries
you can define in the PROM your network configuration (including tftp
server) if you're not running bootp, but most x86 systems don't have that
level of intelligence. In fact, the network ROMs of PXE-enabled systems are
very simplistic, just enough to load the PXE client, and it's that external
program that provides the extra logic and capabilities.
In short, bootp is a requisite for PXE.
--Arthur Corliss
Live Free or Die
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