[syslinux] Custom .c32 module which can send tcp or udp packets

[Ferenc Wagner]

Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
>
>> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>>
>>> You can't open the network card if you're not booted from PXE.
>>> That's sort of a fundamental limitation.
>>
>> Not even if you tried to boot from the network, but gave up and fall
>> through to CD boot for example?
>
> I believe the PXE stack normally unloads when exiting.  You can leave
> the stack intact if you were able to _successfully_ boot from PXELINUX
> to something else (chain, maybe.) with the option "keeppxe" (see
> doc/pxelinux.txt) but this isn't giving up on the PXE boot then trying
> a different BIOS boot.

I've been seriously using this architecture since the 286 era, but
never stopped admiring it.  How can something so braindead be this
successful?!  I'll never make a good engineer, as it seems... :)
-- 
Feri.