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- From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS SLIP and telnet problem
- In-Reply-To: apollo@buengc.bu.edu's message of 22 Dec 92 21: 07:51 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:15:00 GMT
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- In article <105528@bu.edu> apollo@buengc.bu.edu (Doug A. Chan) writes:
- I'm trying to get SLIP working between a PC using PC-NFS 4.0 and a
- Xylogics Annex 3 terminal server. I've gotten as far as getting
- NFS to work (mounting a unix directory on the PC over SLIP)
-
- Beware! Unless you have turned on UDP checksumming on both your NFS
- server and your PC, you're in danger of corrupting your files. SLIP
- offers no link-level error detection, and even if you're using modems
- with MNP4 or V.42 error correction, things like UART overruns can
- introduce errors into the data stream.
-
- SLIP won't notice an error unless the error damages the SLIP frame
- flag itself. IP won't notice an error unless the error damaged the IP
- header, which is subject to a checksum. IP doesn't checksum the rest
- of the user data in the packet. Unless you've turned on UDP
- checksumming on both ends of the NFS transaction, UDP won't notice the
- error in the user data, and will pass the packet on up the protocol
- stack to the NFS software layer. NFS (at the application layer)
- naively assumes it's getting good data from the underlying layers, and
- will swallow the bad packet without question.
-
- I have personally experienced file corruption because I used NFS over
- a SLIP link. It can give some very mysterious symptoms...
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