Re: EtherWave and netatalk (was: Farallon EtherWave question)

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Ivan,

Thanks for taking the time to detail your cogent analysis of the Netatalk
'issue'.

> - someone figures out how to get Netatalk to operate with Darwin's AppleTalk
> stack in 10.5 and below, with the significant con that it will never work in
> 10.6+

Yep, that significant con will probably keep anyone from doing it. You're
right.


> - someone writes a new AppleTalk stack, or figures out how to adapt the one
> in the Darwin source, or adapt the one in Netatalk 1.6 (circa 1999),
> integrated into modern Netatalk, and gets that to run fully under modern Mac
> OS X
> 
> The latter option would be sweet as it would mean Netatalk could potentially
> serve to Apple II clients from, say, an iOS server. Both of the above are
> well beyond my skeelz and time, which I'd rather put to other purposes like
> turning a WD NAS into an A2 boot server.


Now _that_ would be swell! It's certainly not anything I'm capable of
implementing, but I suppose putting that on the Netatalk list as a feature
request is within my abilities. Who knows, as stranger things have happened.


> I don't think true AFP-over-AppleTalk is coming to Mac OS X any time soon,
> but I have a premade virtual machine for VirtualBox (which is free) just
> about ready, so that's the next best thing. It's easy to get files in and
> out of the VM, too, because you can connect to the shared volume from the
> host Mac (or PC) as well as the networked Apple II. Or, when the VM is shut
> down (and if you have no snapshots), you can mount the actual virtual HD
> file as a drive on your Mac or PC with the appropriate utility. I'll try to
> post it by Monday.

I do applaud your premade virtual machine for VirtualBox with a working
Apple II-interfacing Netatalk, but I'm just not ready to boot my PPC Macs to
the curb, and, as you know, VirtualBox requires an Intel proc for its OS X
implementation. You don't work for Jobs do you? <grin>

I am looking forward to your WD NAS project. Those are so inexpensive and
could be just the thing to help so many of us. Pardon my ignorance, but how
would one make a bootable backup of that device in the event it experiences
hardware failure? 


Thanks for your efforts in advancing the 'craft', BTW. I appreciate it.



Hugh Hood