Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752487AbWCQDnI (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:43:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752492AbWCQDnH (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:43:07 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37090 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752487AbWCQDnG (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:43:06 -0500 From: Neil Brown To: "Bret Towe" Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:41:49 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17434.12285.88843.708858@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" , linux-kernel Subject: Re: nfs udp 1000/100baseT issue In-Reply-To: message from Bret Towe on Thursday March 16 References: <17434.7434.626268.71114@cse.unsw.edu.au> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-face: v[Gw_3E*Gng}4rRrKRYotwlE?.2|**#s9D On 3/16/06, Neil Brown 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/