Re: nfs udp 1000/100baseT issue

[Neil Brown]

On Thursday March 16, magnade@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 3/16/06, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There is no flow control in UDP
> 
> is this a linux design flaw or just nature of udp?

Just the nature of UDP.

> >
> >   - use tcp
> 
> im wondering why this isnt the default to begin with

Because it wasn't that many years ago that Linux NFS didn't support
tcp at all.
Some distributions modify 'mount' to get it to prefer tcp over udp.

NeilBrown
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