On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:
> > Anselm, Grzesiek, as a matter of fact, remote boot *is* possible. Most
> > routers will pass all kinds of traffic if asked to do so, dhcp included.
>
> This of course excludes the case where, between the two stations, a
> non-controllable link does not route dhcp. This will most probably
> happen if ppp is involved, as well as situations with any
> other-company-controlled routers.
i do a lot of hardware vpn using cisco and sonicwall equipment. that takes
care of the in-beetween routers i have no control over. have to try
freeswan.
>
> > The switches need to be coaxed into it too. It is'nt clear from Grzesiek's
> > post if he wants access over a slow link or not, but even a slow link is
> > possible, if not advisable.
>
> -v, please. Why is it "advisable" to have a slow(er) link?
it is *not*, again, *not* advisable to boot over slow link
>
> > i tried it just for giggles over T1 and the
> > boot and subsequent session worked, but it was painfully slow.
>
> That's what I assumed. A pity that I only have Asymmeric DSL, so a
> test would yet fail because of lacking upstream bandwith.
> VNC is a bit sluggish with 128kbit upstream (server side) from the
> university pool (10MBit), I think "native X" protocol will pull speed
> down even more.
>
> > If it was
> > just between 2 separate networks connected at reasonable speed, say 100Tx,
> > it should work just fine. julius
>
> Then booting would have to be configured. Of course, at high speed
> links, there is no problems. Even 10MBit is enough, I'm sure on 2MBit
> you could work without problems. If they don't have to be shared with
> bandwith-consuming stuff like eMule/KaZaa downloads, that is ;-)
squidguard!
>
> Best regards,
> Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
> Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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