Subject: Re: Slow UDP traffic
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/07/2004 00:12:29
Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> writes:
>> You mean UDP. Initially NFS used UDP, but it turns out that most of
>> the time you're better off with a TCP based implementation anyway, and
>> almost all modern NFSes do TCP.
>
> Most NFS implementations can do TCP, but I suspect that most still use UDP
> anyway,

Not if you want decent performance.

> Also, SUN took it's time to implement NFS over TCP in Solaris (I assume
> it's there now).

For about the last 10 years, yes.

Perry