Re: network booting

[ol.sc@web.de (Oliver Schmidt)]

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:08:34 -0800 (PST), Jonno Downes
<jonnosan@gmail.com> wrote:

>I've just had a few "family free" days while my better half was
>visiting her mother, so I've been playing around with some code to do
>a 'network boot'.

Cool stuff !

>Eventually I want to get this to something that hides in a rom
>somewhere, and does a proper 'diskless boot'.

But you'll need some RAM too in case you don't want to limit where the
downloaded file can go...

>Some other obvious
>enhancements are:
>- a menu driven directory so you can select from all the files on the
>server

But this would beyond DCHP/TFTP specs...

>ps - if you want to run a tftp server (e.g. http://tftpd32.jounin.net/
>) on the same machine you are running Applewin on, it seems that you
>need to have two nics, and have uthernet bound to one, and the tftp
>server listen to the other. Otherwise the packets that the uthernet
>card sends out are never seen by anything else running on the same
>machine (VICE has the same behaviour, so it must be a feature of the
>way they both use winpcap). Luckily my laptop has a wifi and a wired
>connections.

- WinPcap works fine with the "Microsoft Loopback Adapter".
- Both VICE and AppleWin put the WinPcap into promiscuous mode which
doesn't work with many/most WiFi drivers.

Best, Oliver