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From: tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC 386/ix 2.0.2 with TCP/IP & NFS crashes absolutely ALL THE TIME!
Message-ID: <279@prosun.first.gmd.de>
Date: 13 Aug 90 18:22:52 GMT
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Well, this wasn't really intended as a follow up, but I don't know how
to just post an article... :-{
The flames I just read about ISC's NFS implementation have me wounder
why I should use NFS at all. I am waiting for Hauppauge's 4860 board
(i486 + i860) to arrive any day now, that I want to hook up to the
386 Compaq we are using just now via Ethernet. All we need is some 
kind of networking not necessarily NFS. Isn't there a thing called
RFS (AT&T's Remote File System) included with ISC? Shouldn't it 
actually perform a lot faster than the state-less design of NFS?
Is anybody actually using it on an [34]86 box with 386/ix?
What are the trade-offs? Can I run it together with TCP/IP or is
it actually based on it. Can I do rlogins, telnet and FTP?

Any suggestions welcome!