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- From: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: NFS Over Satellite Link
- Message-ID: <2982@ucl-cs.uucp>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 11:37:27 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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- >In article <1992Sep9.121006.14055@udel.edu>, pahountis@ncf.al.alcoa.com (Julia Pahountis) writes:
- >|> Has anyone, or do you know of anyone, who has done NFS over a satellite link? (Can it be done?)
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- yes - we did it years ago - Bill Nowicki ran some tests of getting the
- parameters right from Sun to UCL
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- you need ~1 sec retransmit timers, small blocksizes etc etc...
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- it worked ok (on a 2*64kbps 5 site satellite system)
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- remember if you dont have forward error correction on yr satellitew
- link, your error rates will be massive compared to what you are used
- to on terestrial links (e.g. 5%)
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- jon
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