Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Speeding CAP file access for EtherTalk Macs. Message-ID: <1512@intercon.com> Date: 27 Oct 89 23:05:18 GMT References: <1989Oct26.214237.23280@hellgate.utah.edu> Sender: news@intercon.com Lines: 28 Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Keywords: In article <2202@draken.nada.kth.se>, ragge@nada.kth.se (Ragnar Sundblad) writes: > Ok, I think I have heard from elsewhere that this is not possible. > I have thought a little about it, and still haven't figured out wy. > I have also heard a rumor saying that they have such a thing > for internal use at Kinetics. Kinetics does indeed have something that they are working with, although it's not a product so far. Mahboud Zabetian talked about it at InterOp 89, and since he knows how much Kinetics wants to let out about it, I'll let him go into the details :-). There are a couple of semi-subtle things that make it a little harder than it looks. The first is that it has to be able to coexist with other TCP/IP products, which can be tricky if both want to handle UDP. The other is that AppleTalk-over-UDP routing is different enough from normal AppleTalk routing that there has to be some hand-waving behind the .MPP driver's back, as it were, as well as a certain amount of manual configuration. From what I've seen, it works, but it's got its rough spots. As a commercial product, these need to be worked out before Kinetics can reasonably put it on the market. -- Amanda Walker