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Can anyone tell me what the current network protocol support is like in the latest firmware?

Does the osd allow for ssh access?
Does the osd mount nfs exports?
Does the osd mount smb shares?

Thanks

steeve

Hi Steeve,
We support  these (ARP /IP /ICMP/TCP/UDP) network protocals in the latest firmware.
But the OSD
1. can not allow for  ssh access yet.
2. can not mount nfs exports yet.
3. can not mount smb share yet.

Regards.

Caven

Can I assume by the 'yets' in your response that all of these features are planned?

I would especially be intested in seeing ssh and nfs availability.

Depending on what you mean by 'planned'  ;) smb share, yes. But I am afraid 'ssh/nfs' would be a geek feature, and will not be in formal release (or even in, but not advertised).

>But I am afraid 'ssh/nfs' would be a geek feature, and will not be in formal release (or even in, but not advertised).

The OSD supports telnet which is also a 'geek' feature, one that really is all but obselete. Substituting sshd for telnetd would not only give the same terminal functionality but also enable things like scp and tunnelling.  Scp -- secure copy -- makes much more sense than messing around with TFTP or even FTP.

From a developer's perspective this makes a lot more sense than Samba. The only part of Samba that's useful for this product (IMO) is abstracting NBNS/WINS support so we could find the Neuros by name from a Windoze machine.  A product like this is most useful when it offers web pages so I'd expect user file transfers to be mostly HTTP.

As it stands today this is a 'geek' product so you might as well just admit it and add the 'geek' feature set in.  There's no point in underbuilding the Linux until the product is developed, it just slows down work.