Dan@dna.lth.se (Dan Oscarsson) (02/04/90)
I have now placed the uab and cap versions I use for anonymous ftp from: lth.se in directory Mac/Unix. The uab is the same as the one available from cunixc.cc.columbia.edu with one additional patch applied adn I have also included a short installation description. The cap code is the cap code from Rutgers with additional patches to make aufs faster. Both the uab and aufs patches will follow this article if you do not want to ftp the entire code. ---------- Some comments on aufs and speed. We at our department have been using a Kinetics KFPS-2 for some time, but using aufs from our LocalTalk was to slow. The best solution we have find so far is to run uab on a Sun (uab will only work on Suns with OS 4.x and some Ultrix versiones). Remove our KFPS-2 and instead use Apples AppleTalk router to route EtherTalk to our LocalTalk. For macs on the ethernet it is very fast, starting Word 4.0 takes 7-9 seconds. For mac on LocalTalk it takes about 30 seconds. This is much better than before. Tough even without using uab, aufs will be faster when using the finder if my patches have been applied. Note: We cannot run KFPS-2 on the same LocalTalk as the Apple router, because if we do it goes very slowly. The KFPS-2 desturbs the net in some way. This means that we cannot use KFPS-2 as an TCP/IP gateway. And that means that ncsa-telnet will not work. To correct this one probably have to rip out the bridge code out of kip and only leave the TCP/IP gateway code. We have not done this, so if some one have done that I am very interested in your kip code. Dan