Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!beame
From: beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PC-NFS over SLIP line
Message-ID: <26FD2260.17151@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 23 Sep 90 21:00:16 GMT
References: <9009222311.AA21050@ftp.com>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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In article <9009222311.AA21050@ftp.com> jbvb@ftp.com writes:
>
>    Believe it or not (I couldn't the first time I read it), PC-NFS 3.0 from
>    SUN does have drivers to run NFS over Dialup SLIP.  The manual says it
>    can be done, but its on the to-do list here, so I don't know if it
>    actually works.  Good luck.  Please write back if you get it to run!
>    
>I've used Interdrive (our NFS client) over SLIP, and I've also used dial-up
>SLIP (but not NFS over dial-up SLIP).  If I were using NFS over dial-up
>SLIP, I'd make sure that both ends were sending (and checking) UDP
>checksums.  Interdrive does this; I don't know about PC-NFS or BW-NFS.
>Enabling UDP checksums can require source or special object modules on some
>hosts (Sun & Solbourne at least), or can be as simple as patching a single
>location in the kernel (Ultrix, Encore, others).
>

	BWNFS does incomming and outgoing UDP checksums. I bleieve PC-NFS
from Sun does incomming, but does not do outgoing.

	- Carl Beame