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[catohagen]

Seems it does work on Morphos after some tweaking , quote from Morphzone.org

"OK...figured it out now ... got it working with my Pegasos II ethernet (via_rhine) *and* on my Powerbook!

Here's the catch:

The sungem_eth.device on the PB and the via_rhine_pci,device on the PB cannot be "initialized" by roadshow for some reason... so what I had to do on the powerbook to get it working was this:

open a cli and type:

online sungem_eth.device unit 0

and then double click your roadshow configi/init file in devs:netinterfaces... and voila!

I did the same thing on the Pegasos II with the via_rhinepci.device...

So, roadshow *68K DOES* work (and it's very fast) under MorphOS 3.1!! YAY!

Cheers,

Dragster
"

Thread is here :
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8962&forum=9

[catohagen]

Anyone have a devs:internet/servers config with correct samba entries to share ?

i've tried this:

netbios-ns   dgram   wait   path samba:bin/ pri=0 maxhits=3000 stack=1000 nmbd
netbios-ssn   stream   nowait   path samba:bin/ pri=0 maxhits=3000 stack=1000 smbd
swat      stream   nowait   path samba:bin/ pri=0 maxhits=3000 stack=1000 swat

i can see in snoopdos that something in my samba install runs, windows7 says it cant find remote device, its like its blocked..

samba is 68k 2.2.5, it works fine on morphos with internal netstack, i can browse the shares from a win7 machine.

are my entries above correct for roadshow ?

[catohagen]

I tried without path first and without the pri/maxhits/stack options but it was the same error from win7 (no access, its like the host doesnt exist), in snoopdos i could see samba:bin/smbd was accessed but alot of fails too, mchar fails and a few others(pchar?), i can get and post the errors when i get home from work as i cant remember...if only i got a username/password request atleast..

Also in smb.conf i use SERVER as security and my NAS ip as server, worked fine with Morphos netstack, usernames/passwords from nas works, but i'll try with USER as security..

Is there a firewall started ? i saw in sys:s there is a start-firewall and stop-firewall script but i have no idea if they are started/stopped.

I copied a 726mb ubuntu iso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FlsmCctSrg) 3-4 times to/from the morphos3.1 powerbook and my Dlink NAS(mounted with smbfs) and transfer rate was at a constant over 14MB/s to ramdisk and 7-8MB/s from ramdisk, so its very impressive(to me atleast) for a 68k emulated stack to transfer stuff faster than a 100mbit network, to get samba to work would be awesome.

[catohagen]

The mchar/pchar bit is probably due to environment variables being checked and should have no impact on the operations of the Samba server software. You might want to narrow down the operations which SnoopDOS will log. Which programs are being launched and which files are being accessed would be helpful here. The rest can wait...

If the smbd/nmbd servers are launched and nothing happens, then at least the log files should get written and (just maybe) reveal something about the issue at hand.



Please don't go overboard with this. If the old configuration worked before, it should keep working with little changes. If you need to modify anything, please start with the "netbios name" parameter (and don't forget to make a backup copy of the smb.conf file first).



The firewall needs to be started manually. And probably has to be configured first, since the default configuration files provided are designed for a specific application, namely for turning your computer into a gateway router using PPPoE.

So, unless you started the firewall script, the firewall should not be active.



Yes, these figures don't look bad at all

How do they compare to the native TCP/IP stack?

I'll try later and see if I can get some snoopdos clues about the servers and starting up..

The Morphos native tcp stack isnt as fast as Roadshow(in my experience), if i remember correctly i get half decent transfer rate from shell(using buffer), but in the 7-8 MB/s <-> 10-12MB/s but with alot of up and downs, you see spikes(in the graph as in the yt video) down to almost zero, up to 8MB/s down to 200KB/s up to 10MB/s and so on, this might be due to lack of tcp window scaling, the Morphos developer doing the tcp/ip stack for Morphos have updated to a newer FreeBSD tcp/ip stack in his port and should have window scaling and perform better(comes with MorphOS 3.2), but as of now Roadshow chews through bytes almost twice as fast as the native one and browsing is significantly more responsive and loads pages way quicker...

[catohagen]

edited away logs posted, as stuff started working

[catohagen]

oh, wait.....it works...i removed nowait from sys:devs/internet/servers...on smbs and swat line


and it works well, I copied the same 700mb ubuntu iso, from a samba share on the Powerbook, and transfer speed to the win7 pc was around constant 23MB/s....after picking up my jaw, i tried one more time and whipped out
my phone again, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsUZh4TD2io (copying the same file back to Morphos share was around 4-5MB/s )

But i wonder,

When copy from a smbfs mounted NAS drive ----> the Morphos powerbook, the transfer speed where around 14MB/s (Morphos is writing to ramdisk)   *GOOD*
When copy from Morphos ramdisk -------> the smbfs mounted NAS drive, transfer speed where  7-8MB/s (Morphos is reading from ramdisk)               *NOT SO GOOD*

install samba server on morphos, and..

Copy from a Morphos share -----> PC desktop folder , the transfer speed where around 23MB/s (Morphos is reading from harddisk)     *GOOD*
Copy from PC desktop folder -----> Morphos share, the transfer speed where around 4-5MB/s (Morphos is writing to harddisk)          *NOT SO GOOD*

so to keep a good transfer rate at file copy operations you need to mix the best scenario of smbfs and samba..(unless settings can be tweaked to better performance)

anyway....its was a well spent 25 EURO for me

[catohagen]

more testing...

It seems transfer rates increases when you repeat file copying a few times, when i copied files from and to samba shared ram disk on powerbook (from win7), it went higher the second time, i recored again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7P9lIHLMNM) and you can see it starts around 20MB/s.....then 25-26MB/s....then 30-33MB/s....then after a few back and fourth transfers it stops....in a few seconds its like Roadshow is paused, it works to browse from OWB, but the filetransfer isnt going or isnt abortable, i need to reboot powerbook to get the transferwindow in win7 to go away.....it goes away when the tcp/ip stack is running again...

[catohagen]

Filesystem on Morphos are SFS on SSD drive, i think most of the copy operations was to ramdisk as samba share, i wrote harddisk but that might be wrong...

Any comment on the halting filetransfers ? if you saw the yt video i posted, the transfer rates increase upto 30-33MB/s and then it halts but the netstack is still up and running, would be
good to figure out whats causing this, either Roadshow is pushing stuff too fast for samba to keep up, or buffer/cache problems...as browsing with OWB is still working when it happends...

Copied stuff around several times today, and several times get a constant transferrate of 31-33MB/s and was thinking how much
does the fact that the stack is 68k code thats emulated on Morphos have to say on performance ? Would a native Roadshow PPC perform better ?

[catohagen]

Installed Roadshow/samba on my Macmini too, as expected it flies there aswell

this tcptest tool, is it available/downloadable somewhere ?