this is more like it...but I've read it already. Somewhat lacking when it refers to NFS over TCP, Section 5.4 describes the pros and cons, but not how to configure it <snip> 5.4. NFS over TCP A new feature, available for both 2.4 and 2.5 kernels but not yet integrated into the mainstream kernel at the time of this writing, is NFS over TCP. Using TCP has a distinct advantage and a distinct disadvantage over UDP. The advantage is that it works far better than UDP on lossy networks. When using TCP, a single dropped packet can be retransmitted, without the retransmission of the entire RPC request, resulting in better performance on lossy networks. In addition, TCP will handle network speed differences better than UDP, due to the underlying flow control at the network level. The disadvantage of using TCP is that it is not a stateless protocol like UDP. If your server crashes in the middle of a packet transmission, the client will hang and any shares will need to be unmounted and remounted. The overhead incurred by the TCP protocol will result in somewhat slower performance than UDP under ideal network conditions, but the cost is not severe, and is often not noticable without careful measurement. If you are using gigabit ethernet from end to end, you might also investigate the usage of jumbo frames, since the high speed network may allow the larger frame sizes without encountering increased collision rates, particularly if you have set the network to full duplex. > NFS is quite easy to set up. Here is a good HOWTO on how to do that. > > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NFS-HOWTO/ > > If you are unfamiliar to TCP/IP networking I suggest you find some > TCP/IP HOWTO:s also. A good place to start looking is the Linux > Documentation Projects site. > http://www.tldp.org > That should get you started. > > Chears, > > Mats Hellman > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 19:45, Distribution Lists wrote: >> Can someone please point me towards some documention on how to configure >> NFS over TCP. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
