> PXE ( pixie ) boot is simply booting of the LAN/WAN utilizing > the NIC. If you turn off WOL ( wake on Lan ), then it also > disables PXE boot.
Not necessarily. Wake-on-LAN is functionality that allows you to send a message to a network-enabled device telling it to power up. PXE can be combined with WOL to enable you to remotely "order" a cluster of machines to power up, attach to a network BOOTP server, and reinstall themselves (for example), but PXE functionality can still be enabled with WOL turned off. In other words, turning off WOL may or may not turn off PXE functionality, turning off PXE may or may not turn off WOL functionality; they are related but are not technically dependent on each other. While some network cards may have BIOS settings that turn everything off by turning off one or the other, I don't know that this is standard (and certainly is not desirable, I can think of deployments that would want either without having both). _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
