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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12317 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3180 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Organization: The Man With Ten Cats References: <Cu107E.Mz3@curia.ucc.ie> <31u76f$3cq@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <STEINAR.HAUG.94Aug9212125@bokfink.runit.sintef.no> Message-ID: <9408130805.06@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 13:05:06 GMT Lines: 23 Steinar Haug (Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no) wrote: : > 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. : I was extremely underwhelmed by SCO, and would never voluntarily use it. Well, we routinely NFS mount partitions from Sun boxes on SCO boxes and vice versa. No tinkering with reads and writes. This is with SCO ODT 3.0 - UNIX SVR3.2.4.2. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com