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- From: raob@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (richard oxbrow)
- Subject: Re: NFS Over Satellite Link
- Message-ID: <9225710.24475@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne
- References: <1992Sep9.121006.14055@udel.edu> <avalon.716321346@coombs>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:28:52 GMT
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- In article <avalon.716321346@coombs> avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- >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?)
- >>I would appreciate any information on how it was accomplished and what
- >>kind of problems were
- >>encountered.
- >
- >Well Australia is connected to the USA via a fairly fast satellite link
- >(512kbit/s) and I've never seen any problems when using an NFS disk
- >mounted from the USA.
-
- mounting over a 57kbit/s link isn't all that much fun ;-) but it works
- provided your link doesn't died..
-
- I would suggest you have a look at transarc's/CMU AFS (andrew files system)
- which performs a similar function to NFS but has a few other nifty
- features, like local file caching, added security etc.. (to cut down
- on the link traffic)
-
- richard/..
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