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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Comments wanted on our MAC-Net configuration
Message-ID: <434@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 6 Jul 89 14:58:28 GMT
References: <594@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <594@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de> breu@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Michael Breu) writes:
>We are planning to have the following configuration:
>
>	An ethernet with repeaters or (?) bridges
>	several Unix workstations with TCP-IP/NFS
>	4 MacII with ethercard connected to the ethernet (new)
>	1 Gatorbox with ethernet and localtalk connection (new)
>    and several old Mac+ connected to the old localtalk

Looks to me like your plan will do what you think it will, my question
is about speed.

We recently got a Gatorbox and it seems to mostly work.  I'm not sure
we have it installed correctly, but going from a Mac IIx through a
Kinetics EtherTalk card through the Gatorbox to a Sun (3/60?), it
seems to be slightly *slower* then an SE running AppleShare, talking
to another SE over PhoneNET.  When transferring files to the server,
both can do about a megabyte a minute.  When opening and closing
folders on the server, AppleShare is rather fast, the Gatorbox/Sun
combination is much slower.

Anybody know how fast the Gatorbox *should* be?  Shouldn't it be
faster than AppleShare on an SE over a twisted pair?  It costs
enough...

Kent Borg
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