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Debugger General Information

The first phase: the diskless remote node discovers its network identify and the name of the file to be booted

The second phase: the diskless remote node reads the boot file across the network into its memory

The various modules (capabilities) and the dependencies of these modules that support the overall network boot function are described in the following paragraphs

Intel 82596 LAN Coprocessor Ethernet Driver

This driver manages/surrounds the Intel 82596 LAN Coprocessor. Management is in the scope of:

Reception of packets

Transmission of packets

Receive buffer flushing

Interface initialization

This module ensures that the packaging and unpackaging of

Ethernet packets is performed correctly in the Boot PROM.

UDP/IP Protocol Modules

The Internet Protocol (IP) is designed for use in interconnected systems of packet-switched computer communication networks. The Internet protocol provides for transmitting of blocks of data called datagrams (hence User Datagram Protocol, or UDP) from sources to destinations, where sources and destinations are hosts identified by fixed length addresses.

The UDP/IP protocols are necessary for the TFTP and BOOTP protocols; TFTP and BOOTP require a UDP/IP connection.

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