robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson) (10/19/87)
I just entered the command "NET" on a PC with PC-NFS. It showed me the 'usage' list. Among the options there was a "PCNET [ON | OFF]". I couldn't find any reference to this in the manual. Anyone who knows what this does? I have PC-NFS 1.0. -- Robert Claeson, System Administrator, PVAB, Box 4040, S-171 04 Solna, Sweden eunet: robert@pvab uucp: sun!enea!pvab!robert
jpt@UMN-REI-UC.ARPA (Joseph P. Thomas) (10/23/87)
My PC-NFS V2.0 manual says that 'net pcnet [ on | off ]' allows PN-NFS to run simultaneously with the IBM PC Network Program. Which IBM PC Network Program is anybodys guess - I'm somewhat ignorent on what IBM offers... Joseph Thomas, Communications Staff, Minnesota SuperComputer Center jpt@uc.msc.umn.edu ( jpt@umn-rei-uc.arpa )
geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top) (10/26/87)
In article <8710231325.AA07476@uc.msc.umn.edu>, jpt@UMN-REI-UC.ARPA (Joseph P. Thomas) writes: > > My PC-NFS V2.0 manual says that 'net pcnet [ on | off ]' allows > PN-NFS to run simultaneously with the IBM PC Network Program. It's actually a small performance issue. We tried installing PC-NFS in a PC and then running the IBM PC Network Program (talking to a Sytek card) on top of it. The PC Network program thinks that the PC-NFS drives are local PC disks, which allows it to publish them to other nodes on the PC Network and gateway through to the NFS world. It turned out that the PC Network program did certain directory searching operations in a rather unusual way that caused us to flush our own directory search cache rather faster than usual, slowing down directory searches on the PC Network clients. We added some code to our own directory search logic to cater for this; since it was sub-optimal for other applications we added the NET PCNET ON|OFF feature to toggle its use. -- Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems | "Picture a bright blue ball, East Coast Division (home of PC-NFS) | Spinning, spinning free; UUCP: {ihnp4,decwrl,...}!sun!garnold | Dizzy with possibility... ARPA: garnold@sun.com | Ashes, ashes, all fall down..."
AD@BROWNVM.BITNET (Arif Diwan) (10/26/87)
The IBM product is actually named "The IBM PC Network Program". The part # of the PC Network Technical Ref. Manual is 6322916. I do not have the part # for the actual product, but you can obtain it from your local IBM rep.