Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!rutgers!bellcore!faline!karn
From: karn@faline.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Response to Long Distance NFS Query
Message-ID: <1649@faline.bellcore.com>
Date: 21 Dec 87 09:22:56 GMT
References: <8712202159.AA13986@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc
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Summary: NFS over bridges vs routers

By the way, one advantage of bridges over routers for NFS traffic (at
least for the Vitalink bridges we use) is that they maintain the
original Ethernet CRC; they encapsulate the entire source packet (CRC
included) over the HDLC link. This means that a broken Ethernet
controller in the bridge won't corrupt your checksumless NFS/UDP packets
like a broken Ethernet controller in an IP router would.

Phil