[syslinux] Custom .c32 module which can send tcp or udp packets
Jeffrey Hutzelman
jhutz at cmu.edu
Fri Mar 13 12:50:43 PDT 2009
--On Friday, March 13, 2009 09:21:53 AM -0700 "H. Peter Anvin"
<hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> Peter, is it me or is asking about the capability of writing to a
>> file, remote or local, coming up more often?
>>
>
> It seems that way. One of the things that concerns me about making it
> available as a general solution is gPXE compatibility, which means
> adding write support to all the gPXE protocols, too.
True, but that (and TFTP put in PXELINUX) seems a lot less scary than
writing locally, and still pretty useful.
> Writing a local file is even scarier... you constantly have to be
> concerned about nuking real data there.
It's too bad that floppy drives have become so uncommon. I wouldn't feel
so bad about supporting raw (no filesystem) writes to a BIOS-supported
floppy, perhaps with the syslinux core warning and prompting the user
before doing the first write.
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