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- From: marzusch@odiehh.hanse.de (Ralph-Diether Marzusch)
- Subject: Re: Interactive SLIP with FAS drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.002229.2232@odiehh.hanse.de>
- References: <1992Oct30.155907.4144@aie.nl> <1992Nov4.112837.6041@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <1992Nov4.123410.27544@wariat.org> <1579@b1.babss.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:22:29 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- wadswort@babss.UUCP (John H. Wadsworth) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov4.123410.27544@wariat.org> zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik) writes:
- >>According to a tech from ISC/SunSoft, one cannot run SL/IP and NFS
- >>at once :-) ( Please, do not tell it to my computer, I am
- >>running it now).
- >>
- >I think what he may have meant was you can't run NFS over a SL/IP
- >line. I was once told "Don't even try it". That wouldn't stop me
- >though, I just haven't gotten to it yet ;-) I suspect with some
- >tuning and a few magic incantations at least a read-only would work.
-
- No, it's really true: the version of TCP and/or NFS(*) that came with
- ISC 2.2.1 wouldn't allow you to run NFS and SL/IP at the same time -
- with any SL/IP line initialized all those NFS server processes (actually ANY
- process using RPC) couldn't get contact to the portmapper (and therefore they
- died shortly after having been started). However OUTGOING RPC access (access
- to the portmapper on another system) was still possible. In fact I even
- succeeded to mount and access another file system via a SL/IP line at
- 2400 bit/s!
-
- But don't even try such nonsense ... it seems to works, but it's far too slow
- and may be dangerous if your modem doesn't have error control and if UDP comes
- with checksums disabled (I don't know if this is the case with ISC's UDP).
-
- Some good news: the latest versions of TCP (1.3) and/or NFS (don't remember
- the version number) don't seem to have this "portmapper" bug.
-
- - Ralph-Diether
-
- (*) I don't know if this bug was related to TCP or NFS.
- Anyway: get the latest versions of both of them ...
- --
- Ralph-Diether Marzusch - Grosshansdorf, Germany
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