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In article <0ZiPHc1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca writes:

> The above machine is connected via 2 Mb/s Lantastic network to a faster 
> 386 with a huge hard drive (250MB for now, but hopefully a 450MB to 1GB 
> soon).  This faster machine will be running Waffle.  Once every set 
> interval (say, 15 minutes or 1/2 hour), Waffle will simply copy the files 
> from the Pagesat computer via LAN and then delete them over there.  
> Waffle will then perform batching for other sites, expiration, etc.

No reason I can think of why this should not work.

However ...

To do this, you will have to configure the Pagesat machine as a
LANtastic server.  In my experience (I run LANtastic/AI here), a
LANtastic server will give priority to external accesses over local
accesses, so that if external accesses are heavy, speed of
locally-running applications slows to a crawl.  So, if you are in the
process of copying a bunch of the latest news over to the Waffle
machine, the Pagesat machine may well slow down to the point that it
might start getting data overruns.

Also, LANTastic Server uses a lot of memory.  You may or may not be
able to load it high.

I think you will be better off if you can configure things so that the
Pagesat machine is a workstation and not a server, and let the Pagesat
machine take care of copying things over to the Waffle machine.  If
you can do that.  In any case, it's something to make a note of and
keep in mind.

Hope this helps ...

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