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pxechaining [2009/08/29 02:05] tal.aloni explanation about the UNDI driver |
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| Universal Network Device Interface (UNDI) is an application programming interface (API) for network interface cards (NIC) used by the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol. | Universal Network Device Interface (UNDI) is an application programming interface (API) for network interface cards (NIC) used by the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol. | ||
| - | when chainloading gPXE from PXE, gPXE can use this API (instead of loading an hardware driver). this way, you're getting support for network controllers that are not natively supported by gPXE. some network contollers have improved performance when using the UNDI driver over the vendor specific gPXE driver (forcedeth for example). | + | When chainloading gPXE from PXE, gPXE can use this API (instead of loading an hardware driver). This way, you're getting support for network controllers that are not natively supported by gPXE. some network controllers have improved performance when using the UNDI driver over the vendor specific gPXE driver (forcedeth for example). |
| - | to use the UNDI driver, select the UNDI driver (UNDIONLY) when generating the gPXE ROM. | + | To use the UNDI driver, select the UNDI driver (undionly) when generating the gPXE ROM. |
| ===== Setting up PXE chainloading ===== | ===== Setting up PXE chainloading ===== | ||
