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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!iocgate!dfr From: dfr@ioc.co.uk (Doug Rabson) Subject: Re: 3c503 nfs hang for large files Sender: news@ioc.co.uk Message-ID: <DFR.92Oct29103851@rhino.ioc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: mishra@pxt.dsg.dec.com's message of 25 Oct 92 05:06:30 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 10:38:51 GMT Lines: 20 References: <1992Oct25.010630@pxt.macaw.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: rhino.ioc.co.uk Organization: Intelligent Office Company Ltd. In article <1992Oct25.010630@pxt.macaw.com> mishra@pxt.dsg.dec.com (Alok Mishra) writes: > Hi, > I have 3c503 ,network is operational ,I can mount > from other server,I can do ls -al also ,but whenever I try to > read a large file ,my 386BSD tells me that nfs server > is not responding,I am not experiencing same problem with > western Digital ethernet cards. Please help. I had something similar to this. It seemed to go away when I mounted the filestore using rsize=1024 as an option. It could be that 3c503s suffer from the same problems as NE2000 with fragmented 8k NFS packets. > > Thanks > Alok Kumar -- Doug Rabson, IOC Ltd. | Email: dfr@ioc.co.uk Phone: +44 81 528 9864 | drabson@cix.compulink.co.uk Fax: +44 81 528 9878 |