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Hi DylansPCs,<br>
<br>
> Erm, I thought gPXE was just Etherboot renamed? As for the
userclass... <br>
<br>
Timeline was:<br>
<br>
Etherboot - PXE - gPXE - iPXE<br>
<br>
Etherboot realized/realizes net booting with a different approach
than PXE (more directly and straight-forward than the ugly
PXE-standard).<br>
Because PXE got industrial standard however, "gPXE" was the answer
of the open source community and in fact brought advantages of
Etherboot to the PXE-world<br>
by blowing-up possibilities of PXE and building an open-source
PXE-like boot-stack.<br>
<br>
(watch: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GofOqhO6VVM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GofOqhO6VVM</a><br>
a real funny and informational video discussion for details.<br>
You can see Michael Brown in this video. The man who is involved in
this discussion thread...)<br>
<br>
In fact gPXE is not only a renamed Etherboot.<br>
<br>
but what I wanted to say is, that the hanewin-instructions do not
show, how to configure hanewin to use the userclasses to break the<br>
infinite chain, resulting if you chainload gPXE on a PXE-machine.<br>
<br>
I tried this, and it did not work instantly. I gave uo trial when I
saw, that hanewin was not free.<br>
<br>
I know how to do the user-class thing in Windows-Server's
DHCP-server and on Linux's "dhcpd",<br>
but neither of this can be used on a Windows-XP, Vista or
Win7-machine.<br>
<br>
<b><big>So i think, "ipxelinux.0" is a real good solution, cause a
simple DHCP-Server (w/o userclasses) is enough in this case.<br>
And even if you use a Windows or Linux-server, "ipxelinux.0"
makes things easier than having to configure these user-class
thing,<br>
when you have to chainload "pxelinux.0" anyway.</big></b><br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
Martin <br>
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