Re: NIC identification with PXE?
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.etherboot.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
John Connett wrote: > We use PXE and Etherboot to install FreeBSD 4 systems. Until recently > all of these systems used Intel EtherExpressPro1000 82540EM NICs so all > that was necessary was to have the DHCP server reply with the > "e1000.zpxe" file. > > Now systems that use Broadcom Tigon 3 5721 NICs are being introduced > which require the "tg3.zpxe" file. > > Is there a mechanism by which the DHCP server can automatically > determine the model of NIC that is being used so that it can reply with > the matching file? We use a custom DHCP server which can be modified if > necessary. > No, but you can build an Etherboot binary which contains both drivers. -hpa ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005