Re: DHCP client with minimal functionality and size

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 22:25:16 David Huang wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Roy Marples wrote:
> > OK, I'm now curious - what sort of size would you expect for the
> > client that
> > is entirely in C?
>
> I dunno, but doesn't Etherboot <http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/> fit a
> NIC driver and PXE boot client (which includes a DHCP client) and more
> into less than 32K?

Etherboot isn't a general purpose DHCP client.
It's sole purpose is to configure a basic interface enough to pull a boot 
image from the network. Of course, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks

Roy