From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: nfs-utils 1.0.5 break amd?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:13:46 +1000
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On  August 4, mschmitt@inf.ethz.ch wrote:
> 
> Now comes the interesting part, changing MOUNTD_TCP in
> /etc/sysconfig/nfs from no to yes will make the problem go away. With
> MOUNTD_TCP=yes I went up to 1000 exports and `showmount -e` worked fine.

Yes,  that makes sense.  UDP has a limited request/reply size.  TCP
doesn't.

I honestly cannot think of any good reason to have MOUNTD_TCP=no  
Maybe I should update the man page
  
       -n  or  --no-tcp
              Don't advertise TCP for mount.

              NOTE: there is no good reason do use this option, and
	      if you do, then things will mysteriously break.

:-)
NeilBrown


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