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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!news.space.net!mac.infodirekt.de!user From: ts@infodirekt.de (Thomas Schreiber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: CAP on FreeBSD. Trouble. Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 19:37:43 +0200 Organization: infodirekt, Munich, Germany Lines: 46 Message-ID: <ts-1611951937430001@mac.infodirekt.de> References: <JENS.95Nov13210918@lena.rydnet.lysator.liu.se> <JENS.95Nov15004900@knuten.liu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac.infodirekt.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9109 comp.protocols.appletalk:20189 In article <JENS.95Nov15004900@knuten.liu.se>, jens@knuten.liu.se (Jens Larsson) wrote: > >We are experiencing some quite strange problems with CAP pl196 on > >FreeBSD 2.1. CAP is built for native ethertalk. > ... > >Our problem is that copying files _to_ the server from all Macintoshes > >but one in our environment is so incredibly slow > ... > > After some more testing I have found something very interresting. > I have an extra NuBus ethernet card installed in my PM7100/66. CAP works > great when using the nubus card and is extreamly slow when using the > on-board ethernet. The problem is, who is at fault.. CAP or Apple? I > am useing the latest NetInstaller(1.5.1). I really could need som help > here, I don't even know where to start looking... > > I'm I the first (second, Hi Henry!) person wanting to use FreeBSD with CAP? > > /jens No, you aren't. I've experienced this incredible slowness as well, when I used MacTCP 2.0.[46]. In my case, options -R 1 -S 1 helped most often, but sometimes hangs for several seconds still appeared. (PowerMac 6100/66). Also, I remember, that I had to create 20 (1) bpf-devices. Now I'm using OpenTransport 1.0.5BETA and this works much better, but to my opinion CAP (or Appletalk?) is still much to slow for using the FreeBSD machine as a Fileserver for the Mac. Also, when opening files on the remote machine from out of an application, the mac often freezes. When this happens, RamDoubler is always just doing its work (that does not mean that RamDoubler is the reason, though). I'm still looking for a port of netatalk to FreeBSD, to see if this works better, but so far nobody seems to have done it. Or is it already available somewhere? Thomas w a l k & t a l k __________________________________________ infodirekt - Thomas Schreiber Tel: +49 89/324796-50 Frankfurter Ring 193a Fax: +49 89/324796-51 80807 Muenchen, Germany email: ts@infodirekt.de _______________ See you at http://www.infodirekt.de/walktalk