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From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS FreeBSD => HP-UX
Date: 21 Jun 1995 19:49:14 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Center for Primal Scream Therapy
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Stephan Trebels (strebel2@rihm.mpibpc.gwdg.de) wrote:
> I do have Problems using our NFS Server (HP-UX 9.05)
> with the one experimental FreeBSD Client. It locks up
> after a definite amount of transfer (using tar on a
> mounted filesys, it stops at the same file).
I don't know if this will help you, but did you read the file
"/usr/share/FAQ/Text/nfs.FAQ"? Here's an excerpt from the beginning:
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FreeBSD and NFS [for a FAQ]
$Id: nfs.FAQ,v 1.1 1995/03/21 20:19:34 jkh Exp $
Certain Ethernet adapters for ISA PC systems have limitations which
can lead to serious network problems, particularly with NFS. This
difficulty is not specific to FreeBSD, but FreeBSD systems are affected
by it.
The problem nearly always occurs when (FreeBSD) PC systems are networked
with high-performance workstations, such as those made by Silicon Graphics,
Inc., and Sun Microsystems, Inc. The NFS mount will work fine, and some
operations may succeed, but suddenly the server will seem to become
unresponsive to the client, even though requests to and from other systems
continue to be processed. This happens to the client system, whether the
client is the FreeBSD system or the workstation. On many systems, there is
no way to shut down the client gracefully once this problem has manifested
itself. The only solution is often to reset the client, because the NFS
situation cannot be resolved.
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I imagine that the HP system qualifies as an "high-performance
workstation". ;-)
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.