Subject: Re: AppleshareIP
From: Ken Prehoda (kenp@nmrfam.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 24 1997 - 10:07:08 EDT
On 6/23/97 7:09 PM, Conner wrote:
>Good morning. I just subscribed to the list about twenty seconds ago, so
>please forgive me if this is previously-covered territory.
>
>What are the plans for support of Appleshare over tcp/ip? The client will
>be bundled with the next MacOS release, which is about three weeks away.
>There is a version of KA-Share (Xinet's commercial product for Irix)
>which supports it available now. While I feel that netatalk is an
>inherently superior method, I think that this protocol change will
>represent a huge performance increase; probably enough to induce me to go
>with a commercial product running on a platform I dislike. Please,
>someone tell me that netatalk will also support this very shortly, and
>save me from having to make the less pleasant decision?
I have recently joined the list with the same hope. When I searched
through the archive of messages to this list, I found the following
message which looks like just what I was looking for. Unfortunately, I
wasn't able to get it to work on a Pentium Pro, RedHat linux 2.0.30
system. I emailed the author and haven't heard anything yet. Let me know
if you (or anyone else) knows the secret.
And avoid SGI's at all cost!
-Ken
>From: a sun <asun@zoology.washington.edu>
>Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: alpha AFP/TCP support in netatalk
>Sender: owner-netatalk-admins@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
>
>
>i've placed my latest afp/tcp patches for netatalk-1.4b2 in
><ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/asun>. you can either get
>netatalk-2.0a7.tar.gz, or the patches up to it. i've compiled it on
>linux/intel w/ glibc-2 and on linux/axp as well. i've also compiled a
>previous snapshot under sunos 4.1.4. let me know if it works for you.
>
>NB: the 2.0a7 designation is my own and not the official
>maintainers. if and when my changes get incorporated into the official
>netatalk, numbers are bound to change.
>
>for those that already have the a6 patches, here's a brief list of
>changes:
> fixed asp_attentions and server messages
> afpd can run as a ddp-only or tcp-only server if desired.
> limits volume changed attentions to at most 1/second.
>
>for those that aren't familiar w/ my netatalk patches, here's a
>synopsis of what they do:
> afp 2.2 support includes
> afp/tcp w/ streaming reads/writes
> server messages and notifications
> server signatures
> large volume support (currently not used by the
> macintosh filesystem)
> 64-bit clean
> random fixes (socket setup, network-byte order blips, and
> other things i can't recall)
>
>my main test machine is somewhat flaky right now due to my running the
>latest, greatest linux development kernel. as a consequence, i haven't
>been able to do a good benchmark yet. w/ not-so-flaky kernels, i got
>between a 1.5-2x speedup.
__________________________________________________________________________
Ken Prehoda kenp@nmrfam.wisc.edu
Department of Biochemistry http://www.nmrfam.wisc.edu/
University of Wisconsin-Madison Tel: 608-263-9498
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