Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751238AbWCQEOE (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:14:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751261AbWCQEOD (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:14:03 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:28859 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751238AbWCQEOC (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:14:02 -0500 Subject: Re: nfs udp 1000/100baseT issue From: Lee Revell To: Neil Brown Cc: Bret Towe , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <17434.12285.88843.708858@cse.unsw.edu.au> References: <17434.7434.626268.71114@cse.unsw.edu.au> <17434.12285.88843.708858@cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:13:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1142568835.25258.16.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 21 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 - 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/