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From: "Steve Simon" <steve.simon@ntlworld.com>
To: "9fans" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] diskless boot of one terminal off kfs machine
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Date: Tue,  4 Feb 2003 22:47:29 +0000
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Thanks to all for your kind help.

My problems turned out to be towfold.

As I was just using a crossover cable between two ethernet cards
the auto media detection on the cards somtimes fails. This is easy to
fix, I just added a media=10BaseT clause to the ether0=tyle=xxx lines
in plan9.ini on both machines.

Seccondly I was using the using aux/listen to start il17031 rather than
starting
disk/kfscmd listen (Doh !)

I started to build a fossil server but gave up in the end. The transfer
rate seemed very slow over ethernet (30% utilisation from looking at stats),
I haven't investigated.

If any of the fossil developers is interested I was using an fs interleaved
filesystem accross 3 fairly fast disks and got "disk: io=10021 at 8.779ms"
I got about 25 of these in 3 hours of mkfs | mkext before giving up.
The times increased slowly about 13ms but the counts stayed at 10010 +- 10.

-Steve