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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Univeral Protocol Driver (using UNDI) in Linux
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:35:29 -0700
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Daniel Rodrick wrote:
> 
> Hi ... so there seem to be no technical feasibily issues, just
> reliabliy / ugly design issues? So one can still go ahead and write a
> Universal Protocol Driver that can work with all (PXE compatible)
> NICs?
> 

For some definition of "all" = meaning "it might work on some of them."

> Are there any issues related to real mode / protected mode?

Yes, a whole bunch of PXE/UNDI stacks are broken in protected mode.

	-hpa