Netboot is the one open source software which contained all necessary tools that make people enabling computer to boot without access to a hard disk or diskette. For this method the computer has to be equipped so that it can load the operating system over an IP network from a server. Surely it can be ideal for diskless clients using an x86 processor. Operating systems supported on the diskless client are Linux, FreeBSD and many DOS variants.

There are many devices where Netboot can be used for. Some of those devices are internet router, X11 terminal, terminal server, Network Computer or known as NC, data logging system, etc. At began Netboot used only for thin clients but actually there are no theoretical client limits for the NetBoot service, especially nowadays.

However you need to pay attention about the configuration factors you’ll use, because those all will affect to your NetBoot service overall performance. If you filled up those configuration factors well then you should get the best performance of NetBoot server connections such getting optimizing network performance and also getting optimizing server performance.

If you will be using a large number of diskless NetBoot or NetInstall clients, your NetBoot servers will also have to deal with the additional AFP overhead required for saving the client shadow files. The easiest way to boost performance in this situation is to configure your NetBoot servers to host the client shadow files on a separate hard disk from the NetBoot images.