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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Subject: Re: NFS over SLIP?
References: <CIr038.7F5@dragon.dsh.org>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 07:41:45 GMT
Message-ID: <CIsDE0.w2@veda.is>
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gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan) writes:

>   I have been having some problems getting NFS to work over a
>9600bps SLIP line. The server is running NetBSD 0.9 on my machine
>at home, which dials into a FreeBSD system at work to set up SLIP.
>I can mount the drive from the FreeBSD system or a PC at work, but
>when I copy a file to the drive, it writes 8k and then gets errors.

When you mount the remote FS, you must specify rsize=1024 wsize=1024
otherwise you will get RPC protocol timeouts.

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adam@veda.is