> glew> a) on my home PC, running an AFS client to access the world
>
> glew> Q: across a 768 MBit/s DSL line, would this be totally abhorrent?
>
> Should work just peachy-fine.. In the old days we got significant use out
> of a cross-country 64k leased line.. AFS works well over slow lines, even
> ones with significant latency. (As long as your expectations are set
> correctly.. :)
>
> glew> b) on my home PC (which I can make run NT or LINUX), running an AFS
> glew> server so that I can connect to my home files from work.
>
> glew> Q: does TransArc even begin to think about supporting this?
>
> I can't speak for Transarc, but I've never heard any statement about what
> level of networking capability is required for official support. Of
> course, there's no support for the Linux port, but if you bought an NT
> server license, I'd expect that to be fully supported..
>
> However, like I said above, it ought to "just work".
Heh. I've used AFS over a 28.8kbps dialup, and it works just fine.
It's a bit slow, and I wouldn't want to run software that way, but
it does work...
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
