Ralph.Hyre@IUS2.CS.CMU.EDU (09/11/86)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 86 10:19:16 EDT
From: mazzarel%husc8@harvard.HARVARD.EDU (Paul Mazzarelli)
To: info-applebus-request@c.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: CAP/EFS on 4.3BSD
The answer to the question of EFS and CAP running on 4.3BSD/Ultrix 1.2 is that
EFS will run on 4.3 but CAP won't, although the changes to CAP to effect this
are supposedly not major (I haven't had time to look).
--Paul Mazzarellicck%cunixc@COLUMBIA.EDU (Charlie C. Kim) (09/11/86)
The latest version of CAP, Distribution 2.01, has been verified to work under BSD 4.3, Ultrix 1.2, and Ultrix 1.1. Ultrix 1.1 is similar enough to BSD 4.2 to allow one to make the statement that it probably works under a standard BSD 4.2 system (anyone done this?). However, one should note that the version of Ultrix 1.1 that D2.01 was tested under has quite a number of bug fixes and other local modifications (like subnetting) installed. Some baseline tests have been done under the Sun Unix 2.0 and IBM ACIS Unix 4.2 which indicate full functionality in these environments is feasible. Distribution 2.00 requires a number of changes to run under BSD 4.3; most of these are due to some (imprudent) design decisions about the methodology to use in the lowest level of communications with the AppleTalk to Ethernet gateway. Thus, one cannot consider it suitable for general use in the BSD 4.3 environment without major changes. The revised methodology in Distribution 2.01 due to Dan Tappan at BBN gives higher flexibility and generality at a cost of slightly increased complexity. As a sidenote, with Distribution 2.01 and the modified gateway software from Dan Tappan at BBN, Columbia has been able to use the Ethernet as a AppleTalk backbone (e.g. AppleTalk-Ethernet-AppleTalk). (To be specific, we tried MacServe and it works fine). Thanks Dan! Charlie C. Kim User Services Columbia University