Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Multiple network interfaces
From: David Perry (deperry@nerosworld.com)
Date: Wed Feb 25 1998 - 01:13:36 EST
Rob,
I thik you should give a look at an OPI system. I work in a shop that on
a dialy basis prints 1 gig jobs. The users are so jaded that they think
nothing at all of running out 4 or 5 different versions of a poster with
a 400 meg tiff file. The server makes a low-res proxie and that file is
placed in the page layout program. When printing from quark, the user
selects OMIT TIFFS AND EPS to not even send the low-res data back. It
would still work just fine if they did but they are allowed that much
more a time savings. The job is printed through a print spooler that does
the hi-res substitution with files that are local to it then streams the
job to the printer via a 100 mBit printer network.
I don't know that netatalk has features anywhere close to this but some
programs that do include
ColorCentral
Helios EtherShare OPI
K-A Share
PrintDesk OPI
Hope this helps.
David Perry
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Robert Lucier wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:50:57 -0800
> From: Robert Lucier <rlucier@innerlogic.com>
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Subject: [netatalk-admins] Multiple network interfaces
>
> Can netatalk be bound to two or more network interfaces on the same
> linux machine? My goal is to create a Macintosh file server that can
> serve through more than one NIC at a time, increasing server throughput.
> I suppose that the single linux box would have to be represented as two
> or more different machines in the apple "chooser", but that's fine as
> long as I can increase the bandwidth.
>
> A little background if you're wondering why bandwidth is so crucial that
> a 100Mbs card can't do the job. I work as a systems admin for a
> pre-press company. Most of the graphics work is done on Macs. The full
> resolution image files that we use are routinely 20M or greater, so
> speed is crucial, and it's not uncommon for two or more macs to be
> accessing the server at the same time. We're using NT right now, but it
> can only bind AppleTalk to one NIC. I'd love to save the day with Linux.
>
> Thanks for your help and suggestions.
>
> Rob Lucier
> Pacific Color
> Carlsbad, CA
>
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