Syslinux - Jun 2005 - Naive newbie question: HTTP

Hi,
Sorry if this is a crushingly dumb question... but would
it be possible for pxelinux.0 to download it's kernel and
initrd images via HTTP ?

It strikes me that it would make this an amazingly flexible
tool, especially if it passed on information about the
requesting machine via HTTP Headers.

Anyway, just a thought... I have now donned my flame
retardant trowsers...

Oh... and don't get me wrong, I think pxelinux is pretty
fantastic as it is... just curious as to future possibilities.

Cheers,

Doug Scoular

Doug Scoular wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if this is a crushingly dumb question... but would
> it be possible for pxelinux.0 to download it's kernel and
> initrd images via HTTP ?
> 
No.  The reason is that the way PXE is designed it would be a major 
undertaking to support TCP -- you have to write a full IP stack to put 
on top of it.

There is a version of Etherboot which operates on top of the PXE UNDI 
Ethernet driver; it does support HTTP.

	-hpa