Re: [WinMac] Re: DAVE & TCP/IP vs SFM

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Mon, 08 Mar 1999 08:31:42 -0700

Michael Kulyk @ MACSPECTRUM wrote:
>
> I did some testing at a client where we installed DAVE. They can create PostScript files on
> the server about 2.5 times faster using DAVE and TCP/IP to mount the server volume as opposed to
> AppleTalk/AppleShare and SFM.
>
> Let us not be too harsh on sysadmins.
> Remeber,
> 1. they never get a date
> 2. they still love Kirk from the original Star Trek
> 3. they consider burritos a food group

Hey, first, my wife would object to the date thing, second, maybe not
Kirk...but Yeoman Rand?? Ooo la-la! And whattya mean burritos aren't a food
group!!! They're right here on my chart, next to beer! ;-P

Finally, with luck, NT5, if it ever comes out, will address that problem by
incorporating ASIP. AppleTalk was really never meant to be anything but a
small workgroup protocol...the wonder isn't that it doesn';t work so well in
enterprise networks, but that it does work. There has NEVER been an easier
network to set up...Win/netbeui comes close, but it's still not so well
integrated into the OS. IMO.

BTW, has anyone here have experience running netatalk or cap in IP mode? how
is it to set up, on a scale of, saaaay, samba to sendmail? (I know, I know,
that's an exponential function!) How is it performance wise? is it a resource
hog? (samba is, kinda...we're using it to mount people's home directories...it
eats about 1-3mb of memory/attached user, which means LOTS of memory eaten up.)

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