A bit of long shot here...
Has anyone managed to reflash an Intel server NIC with Intel's iSCSI
boot ROM [1] and then do a diskless boot from an iSCSI target (server)
such as IET [2] (which I've dabbled with)? It seems it would be a neat
and quiet way to manage a collection of PCs and servers.
Simon
[1]
http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-023748.htm
[2] iscsitarget.sourceforge.net