Re: nfs udp 1000/100baseT issue

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:41 +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >   - 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. 

Also historical reasons that predate Linux, the original NFS
implementations were UDP only.  TCP was not an option until NFSv3.

Lee

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