From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 13:03:50 -0400
From: Bob Kummerfeld bob@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: 9fs on the internet
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In message <94Apr15.001532edt.3010@groucho.cse.psu.edu>, Scott Schwartz writes:
>According to the statistics from Merit, there's at least some 9fs
>traffic on the internet.  For March:
>
>name	port packets bytes
>9pfs    564  41350   4358750
>
>If there's anyone who will admit to doing this, do they care
>to discuss the results?  Was performance reasonable, compared
>to AFS, say?  Any security worries?
>
>-- Scott

It could be me. 

I have a laptop (Compaq LTE/25e, 486, 200meg disk, 12meg mem) that I carried
with me from Sydney to Wisconsin (sabattical leave). I plug it into the 
ethernet here every now and then and mount a file system back in Sydney.
I also took it to the last IETF meeting in Seattle and did the same thing.

I've made a new kernal with SLIP support on a machine in Sydney and copied it 
across. Performance was acceptable but I can't compare it with other systems.

Bob.