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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!winternet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting a Novell volume via NFS results in hangup Date: 4 Jun 1996 21:30:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4p29tb$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31B460CE.41C67EA6@muenster.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Marcus Haebler <mh@muenster.net> wrote: > I have got the problem that I have a Novell Server here and > whenever I mount something from the Novell server via NFS on > my computer and I do something like copying files the command > hangs up completly. Try restricting the NFS read block size on the FreeBSD machine to 1024. Some not-so-well-performing ethernet cards have trouble to pick the default NFS packet size of 8 KB (and NFS retransmissions do always happen in units of the NFS packet size). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)