AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

I've pressed Yodah as to whether or not the sparc boxen will continue to receive updates in the past (particularly wrt IPv6 support as my Duo is the only machine on my network without it) and he's been diplomatically vague, imho.

WiteWulf wrote:
I've pressed Yodah as to whether or not the sparc boxen will continue to receive updates in the past (particularly wrt IPv6 support as my Duo is the only machine on my network without it) and he's been diplomatically vague, imho.

As far as I know there will be no support for IPv6 on the Sparc boxes - but I may be proven wrong there. I believe there's no driver for the networking hardware that supports IPv6.

-Stefan

IPv6 is quite a different matter and discussion of this should be kept to a separate thread. Regarding the chances of IPv6 being added to Sparc there was a comment by a Jedi late last year: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47418&p=271666#p271666

WhoCares? wrote:
I believe there's no driver for the networking hardware that supports IPv6.

One should also note that the networking hardware is soldered on, so it can't be replaced.

Anyway IPv6 isn't needed by entry-level home users so there isn't much of a need to add such a feature to Sparc devices even if it were possible imo (if a business user needs the latest and greatest business features that most people don't need yet they shouldn't be using a device that ceased being targeted to the business market about a couple of years ago). AFP support for Mac OS X Lion is something some entry-level users would be interested and far more important.

mdgm wrote:
IPv6 is quite a different matter and discussion of this should be kept to a separate thread. Regarding the chances of IPv6 being added to Sparc there was a comment by a Jedi late last year: <snip> WhoCares? wrote: I believe there's no driver for the networking hardware that supports IPv6.

Sorry for straying off-topic, it wasn't my intention...

One should also note that the networking hardware is soldered on, so it can't be replaced. Anyway IPv6 isn't needed by entry-level home users so there isn't much of a need to add such a feature to Sparc devices even if it were possible imo (if a business user needs the latest and greatest business features that most people don't need they shouldn't be using a device that ceased being targeted to the business market about a couple of years ago). AFP support for Mac OS X Lion is something some entry-level users would be interested and far more important.

As a networking professional I'd strongly challenge that assertion but, as you've pointed out, this isn't the place...

WiteWulf wrote:
mdgm wrote: Anyway IPv6 isn't needed by entry-level home users (...) As a networking professional I'd strongly challenge that assertion (...)

+1 ;)

I guess I stand corrected. However it's a mute point if the hardware doesn't support it.

I don't see myself as an entry level user and don't expect to be using IPv6 any time soon (I use multiple devices not likely to receive updates to get IPv6 support).

I guess NetGear has to focus on what's achievable for the older devices (some have been discontinued for several years now) and it sounds like Mac OS X Lion support is.

I can live without ipv6 on my Readynas duo but updated AFP support will be essential going forward. Hopefully it will be updated :lol:

I'm not any super user, but rely on my Duo for backing up my macs, playing iTunes, movies and more. I would like to say that I'm disappointed Netgear is so quite on this, claiming Lion is a beta. As pointed out the Gold Master was released last week. This is what is going live to customers any day. Lion has been available to developers like Netgear for many, many weeks in order to allow them to test with their software and hardware for issue just like the one in this thread. I surely hope Netgear is working on this significant AFP issue right now and not waiting to start on a fix until Lion is released, since it is GM now.

The 3rd party Netatalk team has been working on Netatalk 2.2 for a long time. I would expect that NetGear would have done some testing of this on the ReadyNAS but even at the Golden Master stage you should note that though unlikely things can still change in Lion. Once there is a production release of Lion NetGear can then test compatibility of the update with that (as well as some older Mac OS releases, which they may already have done). Do note that there is a lag between beta releases beng released internally and later being released as a public beta. Even if they have something basically ready to go one would expect them to wait till after Lion's released before releasing a public beta.

Many times I have been standing on a railway platform for several hours waiting for a train which is delayed. One thing I learned from these experiences is that honest announcements help save passengers from getting excessively frustrated. It is basic customer care.

Since becoming a Netgear customer with aDGND3300v2 and ReadyNAS Duo, I have found that this is an area where Netgear is miserably lacking. As mentioned earlier in the thread, DGND3300v2 owners have been waiting for months for a fix to a buggy firmware release and Netgear haven't even acknowledged that there is a problem.

I am pretty sure that most ReadyNAS owning Mac users would be reassured to know that a fix to this issue was at least in development.