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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NFS
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Date: 30 Mar 88 19:59:52 GMT
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In article <303@unixprt.UUCP> paf@unixprt.UUCP (Paul Fronberg) writes:
>Another point in the on going RFS-NFS wars:
>NFS seems to be coupled with TCP/IP. I have not seen anyone running
>it with other protocols whereas I have seen RFS running with
>several different TLI providers.

RPC runs on whatever you want it to, and NFS runs on RPC,
the particular network protocol shouldn't be that big an issue.

I have heard that there is a faction within Sun that thinks NFS 
should run on TCP, but for the present:

gondor% egrep "TCP|UDP" /usr/src/new/sunrpc3.9/doc/nfs.rfc.ms
NFS currently is supported on UDP/IP only. 
The NFS protocol currently uses the UDP port number 2049.  This is
The mount service is currently supported on UDP/IP only.
gondor% 


Quote of the week: in unix review, Bill Joy says that NFS is the
"rotary dial" of network filesystems, and that something better
will invariably come along.


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