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From: CLIFF@UCBCMSA.BITNET (Cliff Frost {415} 642-5360)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re: NFS across p4200s
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Date: 7 Aug 89 21:24:00 GMT
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>I'd expect that checksumming to be an independent issue, that only
>gets checked at the end points and not by the routers themselves.

Unfortunately, Sun makes it almost (if not totally) impossible to
turn on UDP checksumming for NFS mounts.  This means that your NFS
mounts depend completely on the various pieces of network hardware
and software between the two end points.  Fortunately this is OK a
very high percentage of the time.  Unfortunately it isn't always OK
and the symptoms the user sees can be very mysterious.

        Cliff