Subject: Installing netatalk on more than one Sun
From: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@ib.rl.ac.uk
Date: Tue Dec 08 1992 - 10:50:30 EST
I have happily been running Netatalk 1.2.1 on my Sun IPC and using
it to provide Sun filestore to a few selected Mac users, to print to
Mac printers etc. I am now planning on extending the use of the service to
include more Mac users. I am hesitant in having all my Mac users
reliant on one Sun. Therefore, I plan to install Netatalk on at
least one other IPC so I have a good chance that one Sun will always
be available.
As I am going to do this anyway I was thinking of running both
netatalked Suns together and dividing the load between them (i.e.
have half the Macs use one Sun as a server and half use the other).
I am also prompted to consider this, by noting that the default for
the maximum number of connections to afpd is only 5. I am wondering
why this was set so low and whether it was because of performance
implications. (Or have I totally misunderstood this - which is quite
possible!)
Before I set up other Suns I just wanted to check that I had not missed any
obvious problems in doing this. If anyone can spot any "deliberate"
errors in my reasoning please let me know before I muck the whole
system up!
Thanks as always for any replies,
Neil
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