> NFS expects a reliable protocol like TCP, and PPP supplies a protocol
> that may require retransmit by the higher level layer.  Of course,
> I don't even know for sure that that is true. (about either one)
> 
> More news at 11.
> 
> --David Gluss    david@pure.com     408-524-3028
> 
> 

NFS is speced to use UDP, an unreliable datagram transport.  NFS will
retransmit packets as necessary.  BSD's NFS implementation does
support an additional TCP transport that works better over WANs.

PPP just frames datagrams for transmission over serial media and
definitely does not do retransmission.

later,
Adam Glass