On 1/11/2012 9:32 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
While waiting 2+ hours and counting for a Fishhead-driven backup of my
2gs to complete over Localtalk, I was wondering about the possibility of
hacking the drivers to use AFP-over-ethernet.
Has anyone managed to acquire the sources or a good disassembly of the
GS Appletalk support?
Tony Diaz has been able to get Appletalk working over a
rare-as-hens-teeth Apple ethernet card. Not sure if this capability was
built into the GS drivers, though.
I kind of doubt that would be feasible... I think the architecture of that ET
card is a lot like the workstation (serial) card, in that there's a whole
imbedded processor to deal with AFP. So there's a pile of code that runs on
that processor that is doing a lot of "driver" work.