Preboot Execution Environment.  Basically a "netboot" for PCs.
Each network card vendor writes a PXE ROM for their card, and
PXE aware boot loaders can netboot without a card specific driver.
(kind of like the "packet drivers" from the good old days. :) )

See:
ftp://download.intel.com/ial/wfm/pxespec.pdf

Or go to http://developer.intel.com/ and look up the wired
for management specs.

-Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Rauch" <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
To: <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
Cc: <kb9ylw@cyberspace.org>; <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: Andy the masochist builds a monster...


> > There's also the "PXE" boot method which newer BIOSes / NICs may
> > support, but again, you're unlikely to find such code in 386/sx-25
> > hardware, and I'm not sure NetBSD has the code yet to support
> > booting with such BIOS/NIC combinations.
>
> Oh, BTW, can you explain briefly what ``PXE'' is?
>
>
>   "I probably don't know what I'm talking
about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu
>