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Post #5 by bbraun
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryNetworking
Post DateSun, 11 Dec 2011 - 18:12
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/http-block-device-driver.24359/
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I haven't run any performance tests at this point. I expect it's abysmal performance, that's why we're using 20yr old gear, right? ;)

This is currently opening & closing the connection with every request, simply because it was the easiest to get going. Eventually, attempting to reuse the same connection would be an improvement, although it'd then need keepalives, connection close & reopen handling, etc.

But, I don't expect great things from either MacTCP or OT1.1.x.

My particular goal here was to get reasonable storage expansion without AppleShare, since AppleTalk is not routed over most modern wifi AP's, since I usually do most of my classic mac stuff from my pb540c. You'll probably still want to put your normal working set on local disk, but this provides easy access to remote archival storage, and exchange with emulator storage. It has lots of other potential, from read-only classic mac friendly archives on the web, to potentially migrating off MacTCP to direct Enet driver usage for diskless booting off the internet.

Anyway, I'm reading about Control Panels now, so maybe I'll get a configurable interface to this in the next couple days/weeks. Hopefully before I get one of dougg3's ROM SIMM programmers, when I'll be distracted by that project again. :)