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From: pegah@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Mahmoud Pegah)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: GatorBox question
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.204329.9387@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 20:43:29 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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Greetings;

I have a question regarding the performance of our GatorBox.

Configuration:

We have a GatorBox which we are using to  NFS mount  users
directory from a SUN 4/390. We are running GatorShare 1.5 on the 
GatorBox and all the MACs are conneted to Ethernet as follows.

										|
										|
	GatorBox	MAC		MAC		MAC  	         Repeater
	   |		 |		 |		 |	         |	|
	   |		 |		 |		 |	         |	|
	---|-------------------------------------------------------------|	| 
	                 Thin Ether						|
										|
										|
									  SUN4/390							
	   
	   
	
We have used a network analyzer to check the configuration of the GatorBox and
according to our network manager everything is functioning as it is suppose to!   
	  
Now the question: 

	Users can mount their home directory but when they try to open it
	it takes a long time (specially first time after mounting). Does
	anybody have similar experience? Is it possible to speed it up?
	

Thanks for your help.

-Mahmoud Pegah                      pegah@pleiades.cps.msu.edu
AI/KBS Laboratory                
Computer Science Dept
Mich State Univ