Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!onfcanim!dave
From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: a/ux 1.0.1 (actually, ethernet interfaces)
Message-ID: <16370@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 04:40:43 GMT
References: <18183@apple.Apple.COM> <1981@spdcc.COM> <18289@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal
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In article <18289@apple.Apple.COM> phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone) writes:

>| If you post a bug to the net, and the manufacturer |
>| doesn't read it,does that mean it doesn't exist?   |

Unlike trees in a forest, when one user makes a noise the rest listen.


While we're talking about Ethernet:

I posted a query a while ago asking why NFS on A/UX always reads and
writes 1024 bytes at a time, ignoring the rsize and wsize options
to "mount", plus any hints that the NFS server may provide.

I got a couple of responses (but none from Apple) suggesting that the
Ethernet card just isn't capable of receiving multiple back-to-back
packets, and so the software forces the read size to be small enough
that only one packet will get sent back.

Question one: is this true?  Is Apple going to offer an "industrial-strength"
Ethernet card that has better performance?

Question two: even if the card can't handle multiple incoming packets,
why can't I *send* more than 1K in a write?

A/UX has the most reliable NFS implementation of the various machines
around here, and I'm happy about that, but also the worst performance.
I'd like reliability *and* speed.