-Information for Netatalk 1.5 Developers
-=======================================
+Information for Netatalk Developers
+===================================
For basic installation instructions, see the INSTALL file.
-
-netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite. The
-current release contains support for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP,
-RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP, and AFP. The complete stack looks
-like this on a BSD-derived system:
-
- AFP
- |
- ASP PAP
- \ /
- ATP RTMP NBP ZIP AEP
- | | | | |
+Netatalk is an implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite and
+the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP). The current release contains support
+for EtherTalk Phase I and II, DDP, RTMP, NBP, ZIP, AEP, ATP, PAP, ASP
+and AFP. The complete stack looks like this on a BSD-derived system:
+
+ AFP AFP
+ | |
+ ASP PAP DSI
+ \ / |
+ ATP RTMP NBP ZIP AEP |
+ | | | | | |
-+---------------------------------------------------+- (kernel boundary)
| Socket |
+-----------------------+------------+--------------+
Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides fast, reliable,
scalable, and mission-critical database support to software
developers. BDB can downloaded from
-http://www.sleepycat.com/download.html
+http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html
Netatalk's CNID database uses the library and header files from BDB.
-Currently, Netatalk supports BDB 4.1.25 and 4.2.52.
-The recommended version is 4.2.52 as that is the version on which most
-testing has been done.
+Currently, Netatalk supports BDB 4.4 and later.