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- From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: NFS Over Satellite Link
- Message-ID: <JIM.92Sep10182413@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:24:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.221558.26816@sics.se>
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.
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- In-reply-to: craig@sics.se's message of 9 Sep 92 22:15:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.221558.26816@sics.se> craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge) writes:
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- While at SUN, Bill Nowicki built an experimental NFS that adapted to
- bandwidth changes and long delays. He successfully ran it over the
- old SATNET over the Atlantic to University College London.
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- I believe that this work was picked up by Sun and went into SunOS4.
- This has stuff in it to keep track of NFS round trip times so that it
- can better handle flow control and limited bandwidth when NFS is used
- on things other than high-bandwith, low delay local area networks.
-
- Jim
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