RE: AoE ?

Good feature.... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Connor [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:45 AM
> To: Etherboot Developers List
> Subject: Re: [Etherboot-developers] AoE ?
> 
> On May 27, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
> > Has anyone here done anything with trying to get etherboot to speak
> > AoE:
> > http://www.coraid.com/documents/AoEr8.txt
> > Thanks!
> > Grisha
> 
> Etherboot does not currently speak AoE, but the modular 
> construction of Etherboot should allow fairly easy addition 
> of AoE as a network booting protocol.
> 
> I have been following AoE development in Linux Magazine (June 
> 2005 issue has an article), and the folks at Coraid seem to 
> be very active in promoting the protocol.  I think it would 
> be nice to have it as an option.
> 
> The protocol is very lightweight and well documented, and 
> seems like a useful way to leverage the advantages of 
> low-cost ATA drives and Ethernet networks.  For many 
> applications, they show some advantages over iSCSI in term of 
> cost/performance ratios.
> 
> Perhaps this is something for the ToDo wiki page 
> (wiki.etherboot.org) that Geert has begun.  ( Actually, I 
> just added it there ) as a possible ToDo item at:
> 
>      http://wiki.etherboot.org/pmwiki.php/Main/AoE
> 
> It looks like a fun project for someone one who wishes to 
> learn more about hacking Etherboot.
> 
> Marty
> 
> 
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