[aklug] Re: First pxeboot!

From: Jason McEachen <jason@brightshinyobject.com>
Date: Thu Mar 24 2011 - 16:03:32 AKDT

I've had boxes where I could set all the pxe values (network settings,
tftp server ip, image) in bios, so no dhcp/bootp service was needed

--Jason

On 03/24/2011 04:01 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> 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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