Subject: Re: Gigabit advice please
From: bryan stalcup (bryan@stalcup.net)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 02:24:30 EDT
ih207@cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to build a gigabit netatalk server for our department running
> either Redhat 6.2 or 7. Could I ask if Netatalk runs well over gigabit and
> can I assume a 3com 3c985-sx is a good card to buy for the job?
>
> Ian
i have a dual 550 PIII/1Gig Ram/320G U160 RAID5/Gigabit Ethernet (3com)
server running netatalk on redhat linux 6.1. works great. 10+ M/bytes per
second transfers to G4 workstations over a switched Gigabit/100 Megabit
network.
if you haven't used netatalk before, i recommend you migrate slowly. get the
new server up and kick the tires with a few files/users. make sure you run
2.1.4-37b. read the list archives, especially if you will be using
quarkxpress. i have had a living hell getting quark working stably with
netatalk on some servers/networks. look for the articles on -DUSE_FLOCK_LOCKS
and using "-server_quantum 2048" in the afpd.conf file.
good luck!
bryan
-- bryan stalcup bryan@stalcup.net icq 9191662
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