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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12306 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3172 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!lynx.unm.edu!nntp.sunbelt.net!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Message-ID: <CuBo9r.A8I@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 14:01:03 GMT References: <321djn$n1o@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <9408081710.01@rmkhome.com> <STEINAR.HAUG.94Aug9212125@bokfink.runit.sintef.no> Lines: 27 In article <STEINAR.HAUG.94Aug9212125@bokfink.runit.sintef.no> Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) writes: >> I don't know. I've been pleasantly surprised by SCO NFS, it's not the >> fastest, but it seems fairly robust, and TCP/IP works as expected. > >I don't know the state of SCO NFS (and TCP/IP in general) today, but when >we got an SCO box a few years ago (needed for one particular project), it >was horrible. Only 64 K inodes on the SCO box, so the inodes on the NFS >file systems from our Suns and HPs were taken modulo 65536. Great fun. And >the SCO TCP/IP/NS couldn't handle standard 8 kByte NFS reads/writes, so we >had to turn it down to 1 kByte. > ... Restrictions on the max I-number to 16 bits commonly come from the fact that System V Release 3 (and before) have only a 16-bit field for the I-number in the stat() structure. If your upper filesystem layers don't have more than 16-bits for an I-number, it's a pain to kludge things for NFS. Many PC Ethernet boards are too crippled to handle more than 1 back-to-back Ethernet packet, and so cannot handle the stream of packets that is an 8KB NFS/UDP/IP/Ethernet packets. In other words, those problems are not really SCO's fault. Blame AT&T/USL and your Ethernet card vendor. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com