Neil Brown wrote: > > Much as it pains me to say this, maybe we just need to treat UDP as > legacy for all protocols (PORTMAP, MOUNT, NLM, NSM), not just NFS. > None of these problems occur with TCP. TCP does have a slightly > higher overhead for simple transactions, but it is a cost that is > unlikely to be noticeable in reality. > > > Thoughts? > > I see only two reasons to keep any UDP support at all in either client or server. a) legacy compatibility, for toy/broken/antique clients/servers/firewalls b) on the server, supporting broadcast RPC to/through the portmapper -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. Be like the squirrel. I don't speak for SGI. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
