Subject: NFS hang problem
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/08/2003 11:21:56
I've got an NFS server running netbsd-1.6 i386, and a laptop machine
NFS mounting a filesystem from the server.

The filesystem mount is accessible, however when I try to cat a large
file, the cat command hangs, and in fact is not breakable with ^C.
cat on small files works fine.

The client is running 1.6I i386 with a wireless card.  The wireless
card might be related.  Its a wavelan silver that shows up as wi0.
Seems to work fine in every other way.

Any ideas on what to look at?  I've included some settings below.  One
obvious thing I could try would be to upgrade both boxes to 1.6.1.
Another would be to try the cat command with a regular ethernet card.

-russ


/etc/exports on the server has just this line:

/export  -alldirs -maproot=root -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0

/etc/fstab on the client contains this line:

thelonious:/export /thelonious nfs rw,auto 0 0