Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:14:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> To: Leo Cazares <leo_cazares@globalvillag.com> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, JULIAN Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, fbsd-atalk@enc.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netatalk /CAP users? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960312101014.28564A-100000@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <n1385557685.19106@globalvillage.com>
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Did you try Mark Dawson's patches? It worked fine for me on a 486DX2-50. The only problem I had was it was not able to contsruct/interpret its own routing trees; I had to put a FastPath in place to seed. Otherwise performance seemed to be reasonable (better than my Sparc 2 at work). Mike On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Leo Cazares wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:09:58 -0800 > From: Leo Cazares <leo_cazares@globalvillag.com> > To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, > JULIAN Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> > Cc: fbsd-atalk@enc.edu, questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: netatalk /CAP users? > > Reply to: RE>>netatalk /CAP users? > > Hello to all - > > I succeeded in getting netatalk to run on FreeBSD, but it took quite a bit of > patching. It did not really test the performance, but it did not seem to run > very fast. I run CAP on an old Sparc 1 with old ESDI drives, and my > FreeBSD/Netatalk/100 Mhz 486/16MB RAM/Fast SCSI does not seem to run much > faster. I was actually impressed with Linux running CAP, but a bit > disappointed with the performance of netatalk after I had been hearing about > how wonderful the design of netatalk as compared to CAP. > > Overall, I really like FreeBSD, but I wish the was more support for things > like the ep device driver (multicast support?) and Netatalk. > > I will be bringing up another FreeBSD (133Mhz Pentium) over the next month, > and you bet that I will again try to install Netatalk and do some more direct > comparison between Netatalk and CAP. > > - Leo > -------------------------------------- > Date: 03/10/96 2:24 AM > To: Leo Cazares > From: John-Mark Gurney > On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, JULIAN Elischer wrote: > > > Does anyone know if netatalk can be made to run with FreeBSD yet? > > i've heard it runs... but not sure how well.. as I don't run it... > > > is anyone working on it? > > how does it compare with CAP? > > > > any comments at all on either? > > I use CAP 6.0pl196 (not sure on pl).. and it works ok... the machine is > on a loaded network and it's slow (386/40dx w/ 8megs RAM) so the machine > doesn't always appear... but it's better than it used to be... > > I have cc'ed a list that would have a better answer for you... TTYL... > > John-Mark > > gurney_j@efn.org > http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ > Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) > > Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix) > > > Thanks, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | work: http://www.eco.nsi.nasa.gov/~mnewell | | home: http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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