Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:56:30 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: mikebo@tellabs.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS v3 on FBSD client/Sun server? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812181551051.6331-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <9812182043.AA07990@tellabc.tellabs.com>
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 mikebo@tellabs.com wrote: > Alfred - > > When can you NOT get tcp mounts? > > > > a) Solaris is serving NFS and you mount a share onto a FreeBSD box? > > This works sometimes, and sometimes not. Perhaps it is one particular > server with a problem. I'll try to qualify that. The server which does > not serve NFS over TCP is a Solaris 2.6 machine. > just to clarify, yes you DO have ask for tcp+nfsv3 in this case. > > b) FreeBSD is serving NFS and you mount a share onto a Solaris box? > > AFAIK, this works (over NFS v3 and TCP) all the time without having to > specify any mount option. > > > > if the case is 'a' afaik FreeBSD does NOT automatically do TCP and nfsv3 > > because they aren't as well proven to be reliable, you HAVE to explicitly > > ask for it via "tcp,nfsv3" options. > > When it works, the options do seem to be required. This seems to be > contrary to the mount_nfs man page, which states: > # The options are: > # > # -2 Use the NFS Version 2 protocol (the default is to try version 3 > # first then version 2). > # > Also, I thought NFS v3 implied the default use of TCP. But the man page > doesn't say. Thanks for the help. The man page is lying, or..... On boot, when do my mounts, I almost _always_ get a: xxx server is not responding xxx server is alive again I think the delay in negotiation makes freebsd fall back to NFS2/udp You really should specify the mount options fully, tuneing NFS isn't as simple as right clicking on 'network neighborhood' as certain other L^H^H^H^Hunix distributors would like you to believe. :) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current > - Mike > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Borowiec -- mikebo@tellabs.com -- Tellabs Operations, Inc. > Systems Analyst, Engineering Software Tools 4951 Indiana Ave., MS 63 > 630-512-8019 FAX: 630-512-7099 Lisle, IL 60532 USA > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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