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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: NFS packet size
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:19:36 GMT
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- boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- }UDP fragments that are needed to make up NFS I/O operations are a bad idea.
- }Drop a fragment and resend the whole RPC. Bite the bullet -- use TCP/IP.
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- And how would I turn that on under Ultrix? ;-)
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- A dropped TCP fragment can result in a large amount of resending too.
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- John
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