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From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What is AFS? [NetBSD]
Date: 28 Aug 1993 16:15:14 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Message-ID: <25o0ai$pfk@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <CCBCMu.4nK@sztaki.hu> <1993Aug25.213507.11531@emba.uvm.edu>
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Keywords: vfs, AFS
In article <1993Aug25.213507.11531@emba.uvm.edu>
wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>If you could get Transarc to tell you how it worked (yeah, right!)
>then you might conceivably reengineer it after staring at a network
>monitor for a few weeks. There are some rather nice features...
There is enough public information to reverse engineer the protocol
with a little help from a network monitor. It shouldn't take a few
weeks of staring. The protocol isn't documented as such, but the
programming information along with some obvious assumptions about
network data format tell you most of what you need to know.
--
John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)