cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio) (06/19/91)
--- SGI's mac support people are all in a tizzy over system 7's possible affect on appletalk networks here. I can see how heavy use of file-sharing would increase traffic. Are there any other legitimate concerns? Note that people have been using it for some weeks now without the networks crashing & burning as these people seem to think they will. (I suspect that the real problem is that they just can't be bothered to support it. It's new and different-- AIGH!) --- cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 "The absence of any corrective action year after year can only be explained by bureaucratic rigidities and the abject worship of that bitch-goddess, cost reduction." --Ralph Nader, in Unsafe at Any Speed
MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) (06/19/91)
cj@modernlvr.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes: >SGI's mac support people are all in a tizzy over system 7's possible >affect on appletalk networks here. > >I can see how heavy use of file-sharing would increase traffic. Are >there any other legitimate concerns? AFP traffic, while almost certainly the main cause of additional load, is not going to be the only source of 7.0-related net load. The PPCToolbox uses ADSP to transfer data over networks - once there are more apps that talk to each other you will see more ADSP traffic as well. Also note that the ADSP driver in 7.0 (and the one shipped with AT 56 for System 6.x) has the throttleback feature built-in. The ADSP driver monitors AppleTalk's collision stats; if they go up it sends less intensively. At least this is the theory - I haven't tried it out while watching with a sniffer. ______________________________________________________________________ Stephan Somogyi net.nerd MacUser