Mac II Ethernet Boards

[John Gilmore]

> Does anyone know of a reason for this?  [Mac-II ether board recall]

The boards/drivers (not sure which) drop packets that are sent close
together, e.g. 6 packets containing 8K of NFS data; that might be a good
reason to recall them.  We own a Mac-II Ethernet board though, and haven't
received any recall notice.

> Although somewhat slow and modulo a protocol bug which was fixed, Apple's
> NFS under A/UX did seem to work at the Sun Connectathon in January.

There are a few bugs remaining in A/UX NFS, but nothing serious.  Try a
"df -i" from a Sun that has mounted a Mac's disk; you get gibberish.
Also, doing "ls -s" produces numbers that were shifted the wrong way to
convert their units; on A/UX, "ls -s" output is in 512 byte blocks.  On
BSD, all such output is in Kbytes.  Doing "ls -ls" from my Sun to the
Mac's root directory produces entries like:

 156 -rw-r--r--  1 bin        317633 Dec 18 18:09 newunix

where the size seems to be in "2K" units.  "du" has the same problem,
which seems to be in the implementation of "stat" in the A/UX NFS server.
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John Gilmore  {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu        gnu at toad.com
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