RE: iSCSI Boot Process Draft

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

Prasenjit,

Is it your opinion that iSCSI replaces TFTP as the means of obtaining boot
sectors and system manufactures must adopt iSCSI within their networking
boot code?

Doug

> Yes, the same field (in bootp/dhcpv4) is used by tftp and nfs.
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>    Prasenjit Sarkar
>    Research Staff Member
>    IBM Almaden Research
>    San Jose
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> "Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>@ece.cmu.edu on 11/17/2000 05:21:17 PM
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> Sent by:  owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu
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> To:   Prasenjit Sarkar/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS, <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
> cc:
> Subject:  RE: iSCSI Boot Process Draft
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> Prasenjit,
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> "iscsi:" <servername> ":" <port> ":" <LUN> ":" <targetname> as a
> file name?
> Does this replace the TFTP file name?
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> Doug
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> > The iSCSI boot team has submitted the following internet draft for
> > consideration:
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> > (See attached file: draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-boot-00.txt)
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