Sorry to be following up to myself, but I tried the same test with a
PCMCIA ethernet adapter that shows up as ex0 instead of the wireless
card, and everything worked OK.  So there is something strange going
on with the wireless interface.

-russ

russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com (Russell McManus) writes:

> 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