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From: robert@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Roberto Togneri)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Why is there a packet size limit of 512 for SOSS?
Message-ID: <robert.673144342@uniwa>
Date: 2 May 91 00:32:22 GMT
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Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
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Hi,
   I just gotten SOSS installed and running on one of our PC's. For
of those of you interested SOSS allows a PC to act as a nfs server.
The executables,etc. can be obtained from soe.sun.clarkson.edu in
/pub/ka9q. However due to the packet limit of 512 bytes writing to
our MOD drive is excruciatingly slow.

Why is there a limit of 512 on the packet size? This seems to come
from the PC/IP stuff. Is there a way of recompiling pcip so that
the maximum packet size is greater than 512 (by changing some defines)?
Or is there a reason for the maximum packet size being 512?
For what its worth I have the sources to soss,rpc and pcip.

If anybody can help I'd appreciate it.
--
Dr. Roberto Togneri                         Phone: +61-9-380-2535
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
The University of Western Australia         Fax:   +61-9-380-1065
NEDLANDS WA 6009 Australia                  Email: robert@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au