| US 7,395,342 B2 | ||
| Pre-execution environment compliant dynamic host configuration protocol relay agent | ||
| Alan Previn Alexis, Selangor (Malaysia) | ||
| Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 25, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/339,225. | ||
| Application 11/339225 is a continuation of application No. 10/108019, filed on Mar. 27, 2002, granted, now 7,024,484. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0168280 A1, Jul. 27, 2006 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—229 [709/218; 709/222; 709/223] | 18 Claims |
| 1. A method to initiate remote booting of a diskless computing device utilizing a pre-booting server address relay agent,
comprising:
relaying packets from the diskless computing device to an address allocation server to discover available network addresses;
receiving offer packets from the address allocation server offering a network address;
generating modified packets by modifying each of the offer packets received from the address allocation server, the modifying
including replacing the network address of the address allocation server with a network address of the pre-booting server
address relay agent in a source address field of the modified packets; and
transmitting the modified packets to the diskless computing device to offer the diskless computing device the network address.
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