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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs udp 1000/100baseT issue
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:13:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142568835.25258.16.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17434.12285.88843.708858@cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:41 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >   - use tcp
> > 
> > im wondering why this isnt the default to begin with
> 
> Because it wasn't that many years ago that Linux NFS didn't support
> tcp at all.
> Some distributions modify 'mount' to get it to prefer tcp over udp. 

Also historical reasons that predate Linux, the original NFS
implementations were UDP only.  TCP was not an option until NFSv3.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-17  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-15 22:24 nfs udp 1000/100baseT issue Bret Towe
2006-03-16 20:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-17  1:33   ` Bret Towe
2006-03-17  2:20     ` Neil Brown
2006-03-17  3:11       ` Bret Towe
2006-03-17  3:41         ` Neil Brown
2006-03-17  4:13           ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-17  9:13         ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-17 11:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-17 15:53   ` Trond Myklebust

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