Subject: Re: netatalk
To: None <hag@ai.mit.edu>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: current-users
Date: 08/22/1996 18:34:55
>> From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:31:43 -0700
>>
>> Why do people keep mumbling about not having DDP in the kernel?
>>
>> SunOS doesn't have DDP in the kernel either.  netatalk works perfectly fine
>> on SunOS.  It's a loadable module.  No reason why netatalk couldn't be done
>> as a loadable module either, a la AFS.  (Speaking of AFS, any news on a
>> 1.2-compatible SPARC version yet, John?)
> 
>     netatalk doesn't have support for NetBSD; it doesn't build as a
> kernel module either (and given the current network architecture under
> NetBSD, it *can't* work as a loadable module).

OK, I'll bite.  Why can't it work?  "Given the current network architecture" -
explain?

The netatalk archives make mention of some alpha-quality(?) FreeBSD patches 
... 

	- Greg