Subject: Re: Was my question really that stupid?
From: David L Kindred (Dave) (d.kindred@telesciences.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 10:23:20 EDT
>>>>> "Chad" == Chad Leigh, ObjectWerks, Inc <chad@objectwerks.com> writes:
Chad> 1. Researched "uar" and understand what it does, and what
Chad> your needs are, and how "uar" meets those needs.
Did that. UAR is an AppleTalk router.
Chad> 2. Research "netatalk" and compare its capabilities to those
Chad> needs you have and "uar"s meeting of those needs.
Did that, but most of the Netatalk resources focus on File Sharing. I
was not having mush success with finding routing information. In fact,
it was unclear to me if Netatalk even WAS an AppleTalk router.
Chad> 3. Decide whether "netatlks" is a candidate to replace "uar"
Chad> based on your research.
I didn't believe that netatalk was suitable for the task I never would
have asked about it all.
Chad> 4. Post to the netatalk list any specific questions based on
Chad> your evaluation of your needs, uar, and netatalk, to act
Chad> as a safety net to make sure you understood your needs and
Chad> netatalk's capabilities. Propose to the list that you are
Chad> doing this replacement, stating your needs, any questions
Chad> that arose in your research, and see if any one knows of
Chad> any red flags that you did not consider.
Which is what I did, I thought.
Chad> If you expect others to do your research for you you will be
Chad> disappointed. If you take it upon yourself to figure things
Chad> out, and then use the mail list as a peer review of your work,
Chad> you will probably be rewarded. You can also use the list to
Chad> ask for pointers to additional information or other appriorate
Chad> help if you get stuck in your research, or to ask specific
Chad> questions that come up while doing your own research.
I did my own research, which led me to believe that the capabilities
existed, yet there were no indications anyone had done what I wanted to
do. So I was asking for the short answer and sanity check that I wasn't
going in the wrong direction. And in other messages I've gotten that
information.
Interesting to me though is that is still no indication that anyone else
has ever migrated their AppleTalk routing from UAR to Netatalk, which
may just mean that UAR was never very popular, which would explain the
lack of information about it.
-- David L. Kindred <mailto:d.kindred@telesciences.com> Unix Systems & Network Administrator Telesciences, Inc. Phone: +1 856 642 4184 2000 Midlantic Drive, Suite 410 Fax: +1 856 866 0185 Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 USA
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