Subject: Re: AFP 2.2 Rev8
From: Povl H. Pedersen (pope@netguide.dk)
Date: Wed Jun 18 1997 - 10:57:11 EDT
>Apple has recently finished beta testing AppleShare IP 5.0, our new
>AppleShare file server implementation.
>Details on the technology can be found at:
>http://appleshareip.apple.com/appleshareip/text/technology.html
>
>Details on the afp 2.2 rev 8 spec are at:
>http://appleshareip.apple.com/appleshareip/text/afp2.2specificationv8.hqx
>
>Are there any plans from the developers and maintainers to incorporate this
>new spec into netatalk?
I would say it would be a VERY GOOD thing to have. I want AppleShare routing.
And doing it over IP allows us to make a derivate product (I think we
should make NetAtalk IP independent, or a compile option) that is
completely kernel independent. All it needs is to be started out of inetd
or started by a root suid dispatcher (it uses port 548).
I have not looked much at the netatalk code, so I am not the right one to
ask about all this. But it is my guess, that it is only a few things in the
network end that should be modified, and you can drop all the kernel
appletalk support. I think this sounds great.
Looking at the standard, it looks good, as it allows multiple outstanding
requests at any time, and of course the larger MTU.
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