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Subject: VAX server-NFS and Sun (and other) clients...
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 3 May 89 08:50:01 GMT
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One big problem with DEC equipment is that it typically uses a rather slow
ethernet ineterface. This has been evidenced in the past by VAX's choking
on frequent broadcasts.

One way to get around the VAX-as-server problem is to squash the write-
packet size down to something like 2048 ("wsize=2048" as a mount option)
and perhaps to increase the timeout to  20 ("timeo=20", hwere the default
is 7)


sam