Subject: Re: NFS lossage from NetBSD to SunOS
To: None <woods@kuma.web.net>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/06/1996 19:01:56
Greg A. Woods said:

>[ On Wed, May  1, 1996 at 14:01:17 (-0700), Greg Wohletz wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: NFS lossage from NetBSD to SunOS 
>>
>> Make sure that the kernel variable udp_cksum is set to 1 in your sunos
>> kernel (it's not by default).  Having this set to 0 (as sunos is shipped)
>> can cause a variety of problems with UDP based services (like NFS and
>> nameservice)
>
>Been there, done that, long ago in a galaxy far far away....  Thanks though!

Sun has an advisory out for Solaris 2.x x86 that states that one should
turn on UDP checksums for SunOS systems that NFS serve x86 systems as
ethernet cards for pc clones aren't "fast" enough.

:-)
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