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| Debugger General Information |
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| Physical Layer Manager Ethernet Driver |
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| This driver manages/surrounds the Ethernet controller chip or board. |
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| Management is in the scope of the reception of packets, the transmission of |
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This module ensures that the packaging and unpackaging of Ethernet packets is done correctly in the Boot PROM.
UDP/IP Protocol Modules
The Internet Protocol (IP) is designed for use in interconnected systems of
The UDP/IP protocols are necessary for the TFTP and BOOTP protocols, TFTP and BOOTP require a UDP/IP connection.
RARP/ARP Protocol Modules
The Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) basically consists of an
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) basically provides a method of converting protocol addresses (e.g., IP addresses) to local area network addresses (e.g., Ethernet addresses). The RARP protocol module supports systems which do not support the BOOTP protocol (next paragraph).
BOOTP Protocol Module
The Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) basically allows a diskless client machine to discover its own IP address, the address of a server host, and the name of a file to be loaded into memory and executed.
TFTP Protocol Module
The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a simple protocol to transfer files. It is implemented on top of the Internet User Datagram Protocol (UDP or Datagram) so it may be used to move files between machines on different networks implementing UDP. The only thing it can do is read and write files from/to a remote server.
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