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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.whistle.com!usenet From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: netatalk, CAP, and FreeBSD 2.1 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 16:55:03 -0700 Organization: Whistle Communications Lines: 35 Message-ID: <323C9757.167EB0E7@whistle.com> References: <3238851B.41C67EA6@best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s205m22.whistle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Leo Cazares <cazares@best.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27305 comp.protocols.appletalk:22526 Leo Cazares wrote: > Question for users of CAP on FreeBSD: > How long does it take to copy a 1 Meg file from FreeBSD to a Mac? > ( I am asking because it takes many minutes when I know that > it should take less than 1 minute ) > > Question for users of netatlk on FreeBSD: > Is it possible to run netatalk on a simple network that only > has a Macintosh and a FreeBSD system with no router? > If so, could somebody provide an example of how to do this that > does not involve a router? Netatalk support under 2.1 was "early" under -current, netatalk is pretty good. We have patched ifconfig, route and netstat to completely understand the ethertalk addresses, sockets and routes, and I have added code to allow it to run on networks with netranges. I believe it also runs with no router, but I have not completed testing. (well it DOES but I haven't tested all permutations yet) netatalk 1.4 should have FreeBSD support (if not out of the box, then in 1.4.1) because Wes has a freeBSD-current box there to work with now... The speed isn't "amazing" considering that afpd is a user-level process but it took 11 seconds to copy a 1.13 MB file to the desktop from my freeBSD machine.. The FreeBSD machine has slow disks and is only a 486-66, and the time includes startup time, and the mac is quite old, so I'm not sure which part is the bottleneck, but it seems to be a lot better than what you saw.. > - Leo