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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!dearg.cuillin.org.uk!dearg.cuillin.org.uk!guy 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 Lines: 52 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ph7tu$2aa@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> References: <2p9b69$3fo@hermes.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dearg.cuillin.org.uk 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson home : guy@cuillin.org.uk 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4