Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:54:52 +0100 From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [heads up] axing AppleTalk and IPX/SPX Message-ID: <139F9446-64B8-4105-AEFB-4F90EDB44792@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: <20131028124221.GO52889@glebius.int.ru> References: <20131028124221.GO52889@glebius.int.ru>
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Am 28.10.2013 um 13:42 schrieb Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>: > The plan is two axe two old networking protocols from FreeBSD head/, > meaning that FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would > be shipped without them. > > 1) AppleTalk > > Last time claimed to be supported by vendor in 2007[1]. In practice > had very little use since 90th. > Discontinued by major routing equipment vendors since 2009[2]. Since Apple has now even deprecated AFP (the file sharing protocol implemented by netatalk, among others), it’s time to let go. There’s a thriving historic enthusiast community around older Macs and Apple IIs, and I can report that FreeBSD 4 (including then-current versions of netatalk and for those who care, macipgw) works just fine in VirtualBox, on FreeBSD 9-stable. Newer FreeBSD versions will likely work as well. Since AppleTalk (DDP and the layer 3 protocols on top of it) were originally tuned for LocalTalk and it’s 230.4 kbps rate, running a virtualized OS on even very modest hardware will likely incur no performance penalty, so just shove a VM onto any old box. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811help
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