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From: howard@ntmtv.UUCP (Howard Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: NFS over routers
Keywords: NFS, CISCO
Message-ID: <1915@ntmtv.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 21:05:12 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom, Mtn. View, CA
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What happens when a directory is NFS hard mounted (rw) over a router
CISCO in this case, and the server machine connection is lost? I know
the client hangs until the route is reestablished, (the server won't
care one way or the other since NFS is "stateless", at least on the
server side) but will this also potentially hang the intermediate
CISCO(s) due to the immmense amount of UDP traffic the client is
shipping out trying to reestablish the connection? If one hard mount
won't do it, what happens if I have 20-30 hard-mounts across the
route? (this will get very common with automount).

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