I found concerning network booting only PXE which seams to be only with NIC, cable and local lan.
Let's say there is a desktop computer or notebook with bootable floppy/CD/USB and some Wi-Fi device (internal chip, PCI card, USB drive...)
Is it possible on pre-boot to log in into a WPA2 protected Wi-Fi, then secure login into a remote server (SSL or w/e) and boot an operating system physically stored on the remote server?
Btw, I mean real booting, no kicker method. (kicker method is for sure working for modified operating systems but not for the non special ones)
encrypted Wi-Fi booting on secure remote server?
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, Nov 30 2008 08:32 PM
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Posted 08 January 2009 - 09:06 PM
Are you familiar with gPXE? Once upon a time, an Etherboot project developer coded a wireless driver to boot a computer over wireless. 
(No, it wasn't me)
gPXE supports HTTPS, but not fully. It can speak HTTPS, but doesn't verify the security of its peer.
(No, it wasn't me)gPXE supports HTTPS, but not fully. It can speak HTTPS, but doesn't verify the security of its peer.
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Posted 08 January 2009 - 09:53 PM
Which card is it? Is there a list?Are you familiar with gPXE? Once upon a time, an Etherboot project developer coded a wireless driver to boot a computer over wireless.
Well, this doesn't make much sense then. But at least it supports some kind of signing and verifying for the boot file.gPXE supports HTTPS, but not fully. It can speak HTTPS, but doesn't verify the security of its peer.
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Posted 08 January 2009 - 10:53 PM
I thought this was *impossible* up to now on commonly available network hardware..
Would it be possible to post some links to the documentation?
The newer 802.11n protocol forecasts a data rate delivery up to 150Mbit/s on a single channel, making it really fast to boot medium sized OS images on these newer machines that come equipped with >2Gb of RAM.
Good stuff.
Would it be possible to post some links to the documentation?
The newer 802.11n protocol forecasts a data rate delivery up to 150Mbit/s on a single channel, making it really fast to boot medium sized OS images on these newer machines that come equipped with >2Gb of RAM.
Good stuff.
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