Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!intercon!news From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Is there a Mac->NFS solution other than a GatorBox? Message-ID: <27B17A95.3CFD@intercon.com> Date: 7 Feb 91 16:04:36 GMT References: Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 33 In article , kovar%biostat@DAS.HARVARD.EDU writes: > Path: intercon!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!DAS.HARVARD.EDU!kovar%biostat > From: kovar%biostat@DAS.HARVARD.EDU > Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk > Subject: Re: Is there a Mac->NFS solution other than a GatorBox? > Message-ID: > Date: 6 Feb 91 17:54:33 GMT > Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU > Organization: The Internet > Lines: 11 > > > You may have to leave one Mac on LocalTalk to boot the GatorBox > > I am not sure. > > The GatorBox can boot via tftp from a Unix machine very easily. > In times of great distress it's a good idea to have a Mac around > that you can hook up to AppleTalk along with the GatorBox, though. > > Any Mac NFS solution over LocalTalk is going to be slow due to > limitations in the hardware and protocol. > > -David Kovar Partially true. If you have a fair number, and we haven't done comparisons yet on this, people running GatorShare all at the sametime you are limited to the processing power of the piece of hardware running GatorShare. If you use a NFS client on the Macintosh, such as NFS/Share or MacPathWay NFS, you will get distributed processing, in that each Macintosh is dealing with it's own set of information, and it is not being converted to AFP. The throughput should be higher when using NFS clients than when using GatorShare, when you have a large number of people on the LocalTalk segment. Adding AppleTalk to your already loaded server (SUN, VAX, whatever) is not doing you or your system administrator any favors. Why not just use what is already native to the server, NFS? Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.