On 10/22/2010 09:07 AM, pitz wrote:
Since Tony speaks so highly of the Farallon units, I'm not going to give up yet. Still need to get a wireshark packet trace for Geoff Body to look at. Maybe something will jump out.
I hear ya. I, too, have my reservations on the EtherWave. I recall having it hang on me while working with the Windows 2000 AppleShare add-on. And sometime a few tests ago, I saw a bunch of "rtmp_packet bad phase 1 version" entries in the netatalk logs. It's cheaper and smaller than a full-pledged router like the FastPath or Gatorbox, as long as we figure out the real hardware/firmware issues.
At a 10,000ft. level, the router devices are handling keep-alive between themselves and the IIGS AND between themselves and the netatalk server. That's quite different from a bridge which is simply jumping from one transport medium to another. It has to propagate the ASP packets itself. That's where something appears to go wrong.
Will have more time this weekend to dig into it. I'm just glad I managed to score a second Gatorbox for backup...
Steve