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From: guy@dearg.cuillin.org.uk (Guy Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: *BSD   NFS speed card stability
Date: 25 Apr 1994 20:07:26 GMT
Organization: Cuillin
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In article <2p9b69$3fo@hermes.fwi.uva.nl>, kmulders@fwi.uva.nl (Koen J.Mulders (BI92)) writes:
|> 
|> Hi,
|> 
|> I'm considering using a 486 box running a free unix clone as an NFS or RFS 
|> fileserver. The most important thing here is of cause the transfer speed.
|> So I have a few questions to you BSD users:

I've not heard of any RFS systems available on *BSD - RFS is very
much an USL thing - developed at AT&T after the AT&T/BSD split.

|> 
|> - What speed can I expect for an 486DX-66 with a LocalBus ethernet card?

There are a number of ISA ethernet cards running at the maximum ethernet
speed so not much is the answer. A card on the VL bus will use less of
the overall bus bandwidth because the VL bus is much faster but the
bus is not the bottleneck.

|> 
|> - Which cards are supported and which one to use?

I'd have to look in the FAQ.

|> 
|> - How about stability?

They are pretty stable - people are running systems for months but I
don't know what sort of NFS load the support.

|> 
|> (- Is RFS supported? At the sametime as NFS (on a another card) ?)

On the same card *IF* RFS is available. The both run using UDP/IP.
[ I may be wrong about RFS & UDP - it's been a while... ]

|> 
|> If there is an FAQ please point me to it. I don't expect the speed to be
|> expected to be in the FAQ, so please answer my first question.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Koen

   

Guy
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