Subject: [netatalk-admins] Slow AppleTalk zone?
From: Yeak Nai Siew (yeak@mir.com.my)
Date: Mon Nov 10 1997 - 01:14:39 EST
Hi all,
I divided a network into two zone: Earth, Moon. Both are two small LANs
by itself.
At Earth, there are 40 Macs/printers, 1 NT 4.0. The NT is broadcasting
the AppleTalk zone called Earth. It has network range 1-1.
At Moon, there are 8 Macs, 1 Linux box. The Linux box has two Ethernet
interface: eth0 connecting to Earth zone and eth1 connecting to Moon
zone. It is in between of two zones. This linux is broadcasting the zone
Moon at eth1. I use Netatalk 1.4b2. Before I am using Netatalk, I was
using NT 4.0 to do this routing stuff.
!!NOW THE PROBLEM!!
The settings seems okay except the speed is slow between zones. I am not
sure if it is netatalk problem or the physical cable problem. The
distance between this two small LANs is within 100 meter, which I don't
think is the cable issue...
At Moon side, I can see the Macs/printers listed on Earth from the
chooser easily. On Earth side, it takes a bit time to list the computers
on Moon side. It takes about 10 seconds or more to see! Can't be that
slow. Last time while I use NT 4.0 server, it only take less than 1
second to see each other. No problem for file transfer, printing, or
whatever under NT 4.0.
What could be wrong? I have set the nice value for atalkd to -10, seems
doesn't help.
Does anyone else has this problem? How do you solve it?
Thanks.
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