The PXE daemon facilitates network booting of PXE-enabled devices managed by network administrators.
The PXE daemon is an essential tool for network managers who need to boot PXE-enabled machines over a network. It involves BOOTP, TFTP, and a PXE daemon. Unfortunately, the PXE daemon implementation is limited to little endian machines and is messy and difficult to work with.
Attempts to find support for the daemon at Red Hat or Intel have been fruitless, and Intel seems uninterested in porting the code to big endian machines. Fixing the existing code would be a daunting task, so it is better to rewrite the daemon altogether.
While some users may already have a boot server, many UNIX machines are not x86 and cannot be used as PXE servers. The PXELINUX bootstrap code can help bypass limitations and allow users to boot using the full amount of memory in their systems. This feature is not available with Intel's PXE daemon.
It is recommended to use PXELINUX instead of Intel's PXE daemon as it is far superior. The new release of the PXE daemon includes an increased interface buffer to hold more than three interfaces as well as fixes for segfault and null pointer issues.
Attempts to find support for the daemon at Red Hat or Intel have been fruitless, and Intel seems uninterested in porting the code to big endian machines. Fixing the existing code would be a daunting task, so it is better to rewrite the daemon altogether.
While some users may already have a boot server, many UNIX machines are not x86 and cannot be used as PXE servers. The PXELINUX bootstrap code can help bypass limitations and allow users to boot using the full amount of memory in their systems. This feature is not available with Intel's PXE daemon.
It is recommended to use PXELINUX instead of Intel's PXE daemon as it is far superior. The new release of the PXE daemon includes an increased interface buffer to hold more than three interfaces as well as fixes for segfault and null pointer issues.
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