Appendix C: Boot Methods And Protocols; Appendix D: Pxe Optimizing Pxe Application Maintenance - HP e-PC c10/s10 Manual

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Appendix C: Boot methods and protocols

Boot method

Protocols and

technologies

PXE applications may be built on UNDI network drivers. UNDI is hardware embedded. Accordingly, PXE network

applications are independent of networking hardware. Building networking applications that are hardware

independent can save a lot of application maintenance.

Hardware dependent

Note: This example shows an NDIS2 based network stack. Other implementations, such as packet drivers, are also

possible.

UNDI

driver

Any PXE PCI

LAN card

Typical networking operating

system booted

Network Application

e.g. Software deployment

Network Stack

NDIS2

UNDI to NDIS2

driver

Universal networking application

Boot mode

PXE Server