perl@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman) (05/09/90)
I recently posted a question about the interworking of CAP & UAB
on the same network. The responses were positive and opened up an
additional possibility.
First Dan@dna.lth.se wrote "The only conflict that can happen is if
you run a kbox and appletalk router that route to the same localtalk,
then the localtalk can be very slow."
Good news so far. Then s-dorner@uiuc.edu sent this: "The Last time
I was in a Sequent kernel, it had direct EtherTalk support.
That's been a coupla years, but you might ask Sequent about
whether or not EtherTalk is still supported."
I called Sequent (thankx jax) and found out that some support for
AppleTalk (phase 1 only) exists in DYNIX for Symmetry, at least
up to 3.0.17. (I did not enquire about Balance).
/sys/conf/conf_net.c contains the following: (edited for space)
/* APPLETALK config */
int kin_atalk_arp = 0; /* Kinetics Appletalk Arp using net 0 IP addrs */
int ddpqmaxlen = IFQ_MAXLEN;
int ddp_sendspace = 2048;
int ddp_recvspace = 2048;
There are also man pages for AppleTalk and DDP.
Our major use of cap is for printing to AppleTalk printers (papif) and
providing AppleShare file service (aufs). We also use NCSA telnet with
and without MacTCP. We now have a number of Macs on "EtherTalk" and
would like to speed up the file sharing from aufs.
What do I need to provide aufs or aufs-like services directly to the
eneted macs without going through the FastPath? Do I realy need UAB,
or is there sufficient support from the DYNIX kernel? And if there is
support, how do I implement it?
Anyone out there tried this?
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