[nycbug-talk] network protocols: lab time?

[G.Rosamond]

On May 12, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Pete Wright wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> On May 11, 2004, at 7:11 PM, Sunny Dubey wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 07:06 pm, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> CIFS and SMB aren't really worth talking about separately..
>>>
>>>
>>> I believe their implementations are not the same, or so it appears 
>>> in the
>>> linux kernel because each has their own kernel module from the samba 
>>> guys
>>>
>>> hence why it should be tested seperately
>>
>>
>> We were talking about OS X, on the NYC BSD Users Group mailing list.  
>> I'm not sure what the implementation details of the Linux kernel has 
>> to do with that ;)
>
>
> why should we limit the test to just Mac/OS X tho?  Maybe for the 
> initial testing it would be helpful to establish a base line using 
> Mac/OS X, but in the furture i'd think the differences between a 
> FreeBSD box serving NFSv3 versus a FreeBSD box server netatalk could 
> be more interesting(and cheaper for us to test ;^).  I still think we 
> should target a OS X client tho...
>
>
>

We should either use multiple protocols on one OS/platform, or one 
protocol with multiple plaforms/OS's.

It seems  that the main contention is about protocols, so maybe we 
stick to one platform/OS and test multiple protocols.

g