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From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Are there other ports of BSD "NFS over TCP"?
Keywords: NFS TCP
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Date: 2 Jul 92 00:06:20 GMT
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Jolitz' 386BSD has a working implementation of NFS using TCP instead
of UDP. (I believe this code was in 4.3net2 as well.) I've used it
from one 386BSD machine to another; over a 19200bps SLIP line[*], I
get about the same performance transfering large files as I do for
ftp.
	Has anyone ported this code to other operating systems? I'm
particularly interested in having the server side under SunOS, though
I'd appreciate news of other ports as well.
				_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
				MIT Student Information Processing Board
				Cygnus Support <eichin@cygnus.com>

[*] about 1550 bytes/second, roughly 80% if you remember that bytes
are 10 bits on the wire.