[OpenAFS] AFS on low bandwidth networks

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:21:46 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Juan Carlos wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'm new on AFS.
> I would like to know if it is possible to install AFS over a WAN. The
> clients would be in LANs of at most 8 machines. The link to the WAN would be
> of about 64K.
> The files use won't be very heavy and would be rarely "write mode" shared.
>
> Will this "work" over 64K links? Will be necessary to have a server on each
> of thes LANS?

you can use it over a link like this. i used to use AFS over a 14.4
modem. caching large files was slow, but it was otherwise fine.