What is the Purpose of /usr/ports/net/pxe

tuaris

tuaris

I'm experimenting with setting up a PXE Boot server, so far all the guides tell me to use syslinux in some way and make changes to my DHCP server to load a specific file named pxelinux.0 directly from the tftp server.

I don't understand how the port net/pxe fits into all this?

I thought that the PXE clients would automatically discover this information when a request is "sent out" and the PXE server would reply. However, it seems as the pxe port is not even being utilized.

Maybe I am not understanding, can someone please clear this up for me?
 
tuaris said:
I'm experimenting with setting up a PXE Boot server, so far all the guides tell me to use syslinux in some way and make changes to my DHCP server to load a specific file named pxelinux.0 directly from the tftp server.
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Those are Linux specific files needed to PXE boot a Linux machine.

I don't understand how the port net/pxe fits into all this?
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I think its pkg-desc is pretty clear what it does:
This is a PXE daemon, which you can use to set up a networked boot menu for netbooting client machines (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, etc.) that support & utilize Intel's Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE).
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I thought that the PXE clients would automatically discover this information when a request is "sent out" and the PXE server would reply. However, it seems as the pxe port is not even being utilized.
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PXE uses DHCP/BOOTP and TFTP or NFS. Nothing more is needed.

Maybe I am not understanding, can someone please clear this up for me?
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This is a more FreeBSD specific guide. It's a little dated but should provide a lot of information.

FreeBSD Jumpstart Guide
 
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