Boot time of XP embedded network image

Hi,

I'd like to know whether there is any experience around
with XP Embedded in large constellations of, say, 20..30
PC's each doing a 'network boot' at the same time.

I do not use a network boot now, but a transfer of 1,1 Mbyte with
a TFTP server runnning NT Server now takes about 1 second (100 Mbit/s
Ethernet). There is a large variation in TFTP Servers around, some fast,
most quite slow, some can do concurrent transfers, others not.

Anaway, based on the figures measured now a 128M transfer is
going to take some 2 minutes. And this concurrent with 20..30 others
is not going to speed things up...

Any sharing of experience is appreciated...

Rob Hulsebos

Rob,

One of the guys from VCI was boasting some pretty high numbers using their
BXP (Boot XP) product. Maybe try an eval version of that and see what your
results are. I can't remember specific numbers but I know it was multiple
machines in secs (less than 60 anyway ;-))

Try this link.......
http://www.vci.com/products/network...c/bxpretail.asp

HTH,
--
Brad Combs
Imago Technologies, LLC

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"Rob Hulsebos" <rahulsebos@cs.com> wrote in message
news:5292f2ff.0404251348.751b4a94@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know whether there is any experience around
> with XP Embedded in large constellations of, say, 20..30
> PC's each doing a 'network boot' at the same time.
>
> I do not use a network boot now, but a transfer of 1,1 Mbyte with
> a TFTP server runnning NT Server now takes about 1 second (100 Mbit/s
> Ethernet). There is a large variation in TFTP Servers around, some fast,
> most quite slow, some can do concurrent transfers, others not.
>
> Anaway, based on the figures measured now a 128M transfer is
> going to take some 2 minutes. And this concurrent with 20..30 others
> is not going to speed things up...
>
> Any sharing of experience is appreciated...
>
> Rob Hulsebos