Re: draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-boot-00.txt

["Prasenjit Sarkar" <psarkar@almaden.ibm.com>]

Doug and Costa,

You are both right - however, we may have to include protocols other than
tftp
since there are a substantial number of boot ROMs that do not support tftp.

Also, under the current draft, you can tftp a iscsi initiator capable boot
image
and then do a real boot off some iscsi target - the only catch is that the
iscsi boot client has to qualify what it wants to boot and this is
certainly
possible.

Prasenjit


csapuntz@cisco.com@ece.cmu.edu on 11/22/2000 11:48:39 AM

Sent by:  owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu


To:   "Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>
cc:   "Ips" <ips@ece.cmu.edu>, csapuntz@cisco.com
Subject:  Re: draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-boot-00.txt




Doug,

You make a good point that we ignored today's boot ROMs.

The boot team will go back and look at how to accomodate both TFTP-boot
and iSCSI information in the DHCP/BOOTP info.

Thanks,
-Costa


"Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net> writes:

> WG,
>
> An immediate solution, rather than modification of network booting ROMs,
> would be useful.  Despite eventual success iSCSI may enjoy, it would be
> unwise to endorse this proposal as a recommendation of ROMing iSCSI.  Is
it
> possible to modify this proposal into utilizing existing ROMs?
>
> Doug