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From: dirk@dksoft.incom.de (Dirk Koeppen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Net-Bootable PC Soft/Hardware ?
Message-ID: <1441@dksoft.incom.de>
Date: 6 Dec 90 08:50:22 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.160706.3363@ciba-geigy.ch>
Organization: Koeppen EDV-Beratung, D-6050 Offenbach, Germany
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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

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