Subject: 802.11 vs. NFS?
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/06/2003 13:26:35
Folks:
	Anybody out there have good experience running NFS over 802.11? 
	My experience so far has been that even with read and write sizes
	tweaked down *significantly* (I haven't tried 1k yet, 2k still has
	issues), at some point the mount just hangs.  With the default of
	hard mounts, any processes looking at that FS (including df, etc.)
	hang in disk-wait.

	So far, I'm using all defaults (udp mounts, nfsv3) with read/write
	sizes clamped down.  The client is PII or PIII laptop with a wi (a
	real Orinoco Gold) or an atw card (DLink AirCard cardbus adapter);
	the servers are a dual-PIII box connected via GigE or a Sun Ultra5
	connected via on-board hme.  The AP is an Apple Airport.  Right now
	I'm not doing either WEP or IPSec over 802.11 but plan on doing the
	latter, so I'd be even more interested if folks have any experience
	with that.

	Currently, the NFS mounts are mostly used to play audio/video off
	the big(ger) disks attached to one of the fixed machines, so it's
	not ultra-important, but would be nice to be able to play tunes
	without risking locking the machine up eventually.

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@pobox.com
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