NFS Buffering

[NiftyFedora Mitch]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Simon Andrews
<simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 29/09/2010 20:09, JB wrote:
>>> Thanks.
>>> Could you please give us (on Fedora 13) an unedited output of:
>> # cat /etc/mtab
>> # cat /proc/mounts
>
> remote.server.name:/vol/ftp/ftp-1 /mnt/remote nfs
> rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=NNN.MMM.100.6,mountvers=3,mountport=4046,mountproto=tcp,addr=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> 0 0
>
> remote.server.name:/vol/ftp/ftp-1 /mnt/remote nfs
> rw,tcp,addr=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 0 0

Do check with traceroute how packets are routed.  It looks like the
server has multiple IP addresses.  If you pick the wrong one
a straight shot  route can be lost in preference to some other
out past the neighbors barn path.


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