[FDE] PointSec

[MSchutt at comerica.com]

PXE ( pixie ) boot is simply booting of the LAN/WAN utilizing the NIC.  If 
you turn off WOL ( wake on Lan ), then it also disables PXE boot.

Thanks for the advise on the defrag / checkdisk.  Will do.

Cheers.

Mike





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Hi,

Having been part of a large PointSec deployment recently, I can 
tell you that we found two problems: something called "pixie 
boot" which I never did get a clear definition of, and disk 
fragmentation.

Run defrag and checkdsk on all machines before installing. They 
wrote a little script to do it for all the machines connected to 
the LAN. With the pixie boot and the defrag/checkdsk fixes the 
failure rate went from 17% to 0.025%. We think the failed 
machines had hardware/HD problems anyway so they were just 
swapped out.

Best,

Allen

jfvanmeter at comcast.net wrote:
> I was wondering what everyone thought of PointSec? I'm currectly getting 
ready to test it. The test will be in a WIn2k3 SP2 R2 domain with the 
workstations being Xp SP2. Does anyone have any gotcha's that they would 
like to share, or problem areas that they found.
> 
> Thanks in advanced
> 
> Take Care and Have Fun --John
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