Subject: Re: NFS lossage from NetBSD to SunOS
To: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/06/1996 20:29:30
You forgot to finish that sentence...

>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...

... when running under Solaris x86.

:-)

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