Bonded head nodes
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Ivan Pulleyn ivan at sixfold.comFri Nov 8 12:14:25 PST 2002
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Donald Becker wrote: > Every current motherboard you might use in a cluster has native PXE > boot. It's not the protocol you would choose, but it's a ubiquitous > standard. It's done. It's workable. That means it won't change for > about a decade. I agree that stage 1 will remain PXE w/TFTP for a long time because it's burned into the ROMs. However, the bulk of the data transfer happens afterwards (due to the transfer size constraints imposed by the ROMs). There's no reason we can't work as a group to improve stage 2 performance. This merely requires getting new code accepted into the various Linux projects that implement stage 2 clients. Ivan.... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ivan Pulleyn Sixfold Technologies, LLC Chicago Technology Park 2201 West Campbell Drive Chicago, IL 60612 email: ivan at sixfold.com voice: (866) 324-5460 x601 fax: (312) 421-0388 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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