Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU!morgan From: morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Aufs and MacII ethernet card? Message-ID: Date: 30 Sep 88 17:20:12 GMT References: <677@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Aufs can be used from an Ethernet-attached MacII (or SE), but you'll still need the Kbox to do the EtherTalk<-->AppleTalk-in-UDP translation for you, since CAP speaks AT-in-UDP and the Mac speaks EtherTalk. Be prepared for curious performance with a KFPS-[123], as well. We were seeing reasonable performance with transfers from the Aufs machine to a MacII, but terrible performance from the MacII to the Aufs machine. My guess (unconfirmed by traces or anything) is that the MacII was blasting and overloading the Kbox, causing retransmissions, whereas the Aufs machine is throttled down since it expects to be talking to a Mac+ on a LocalTalk. We observed quite good performance in both directions going thru a KFPS-4. - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford