[27] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: AFS over SLIP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Dec 21 13:03:02 1990
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 12:46:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Craig_Everhart@transarc.com
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <8bQXenQ91E5zApZwV5@rchland.ibm.com>
When I worked at the ITC, I used AFS over 64Kbps SLIP and it was fine.
Admittedly, things weren't as fast as LAN speeds, but they were pretty
well tolerable. I kept a big collection of programs on an additional
moderate-sized disk (40Meg or 70Meg, essentially ANDREWDIR) and I was a
happy camper. (I had two ``package'' files: one used at every reboot,
and one used when I felt like letting it update all of ATK for half an
hour.)
I'd like to know what's behind Peter's assertion about ``everything you
believe about rx is wrong.'' Or maybe I don't want to. Not sure.
Wouldn't it be great if Rx could get at the real value for the MTU from
somewhere?
Then again, I'm sure that Rx appears to be real bad at 9600bps compared
to how you've gotten used to it at 10Mbps, for all the things you use it
for.
Craig
