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  1. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!terminator!honey
  3. From: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
  4. Subject: Re: req for advice on using PPP
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug23.165425.21003@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
  6. Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Usenet Owner)
  7. Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu
  8. Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
  9. References: <Bt73Ap.2H4@news.fai.com> <IGNATIOS.92Aug20110623@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
  10. Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:54:25 GMT
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  12.  
  13. Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
  14. |> BTW: nfs? You might want to completely avoid it. Try mounting a remote
  15. |>    filesystem to get the feeling. Basically, you have to avoid
  16. |>    anything which does stats because they cause lots of traffic, and
  17. |>    anything which does writes because nfs writes always wait for the
  18. |>    'written to disk' confirmation from the other side.
  19.  
  20. you have to avoid reads, too.
  21.  
  22. but afs over dialup is not too bad.  client caching wins.
  23.  
  24.     peter
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