On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:35, Brian Dessent wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >One thing that Cygwin does lack, and SFU has, is an NFS client :-/ > > >I know that alone will probably entice me into taking a look at > > >SFU. > > > > It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop > > filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS, > > EXTFS, etc. > > > > Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect project. :-) > > Ooh, ooh! Somebody port KDE's Kioslave feature to Cygwin. Then I'll > finally be able to mount as a drive letter that ISO9660 image on my > remote Appletalk share that's tunneled through ssh through a http proxy > on my IP-over-carrier pigeon link. > > Brian > With carrier pigeon 1.0, the beak is so small you have to dis-assemble/re-assemble the IP packets.
Carrier pigeon 2.0 has a bigger beak and can hold a full packet. Unfortunately the evolutionary process is goin slow. Maybe within a couple of millenium. Have you thought about using IP-over-turkey instead? It is slower and not very sexy, but with the bigger beak, you can get better bandwidth. Greg > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/