Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080162919
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| Summary / Description | EtherBoot project provides an option to use HTTP as a boot image transport protocol instead of FTP. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://etherboot.org/wiki/httpb... |
| Author/Creator | etherboot.org |
| Title | HTTP booting |
| Publication Date | March 23, 2004 |
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Notes / To Do
| Notes | HTTP support in EtherBoot has been supported since version 5.3.7. There are some mentioning of the initial HTTP support at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=80DD6BEC-7C85-11D8-8B02-0003934539EE%40etherboot.org |
Excerpt
Excerpt Booting from HTTP with gPXE is as simple as replacing the DHCP filename field with an http:// URL. For example, if you currently have /etc/dhcpd.conf containing
next-server my.tftp.server;
filename "/pxe.0";
then you can just copy pxe.0 to your web server and edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to contain
filename "http://my.web.server/pxe.0";
Scalability
HTTP can handle much larger files than TFTP, and scale to much larger distances. You can easily download multi-megabyte files, such as a Linux kernel and a root filesystem, and you can download from servers that are not on your local area network. We have successfully tested booting across the Atlantic using HTTP!
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Claims
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: The method of Claim 4, wherein discovering a boot image server and requesting at least part of a boot image from the boot image server includes:
sending a message to an expected boot image server, wherein the message requests at least part of the boot image.
Relevance
HTTP request can be considered a message in this context
HTTP request can be considered a message in this context
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: The method of Claim 5, wherein sending a message includes sending a message that includes information about the computer system that is expected to facilitate that selection by the boot image server of a boot image from a plurality of possible boot images.
Relevance
HTTP request can be considered a message in this context.
HTTP request can be considered a message in this context.
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: The apparatus of Claim 12, wherein discovering a boot image server and requesting at least part of a boot image from the boot image server includes:
sending a message to an expected boot image server, wherein the message requests at least part of the boot image.
Relevance
HTTP request can be considered a message in this context
HTTP request can be considered a message in this context
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