[rescue] Re: OT Linux

[Dave McGuire]

On December 27, Stephen Worotynec wrote:
> >   NFS defaults to UDP, and most NFS implementation *only* do UDP.
> 
> I think the default transport protocol depends on the implementation - and
> TCP has replaced UDP as the default transport requested by the client on
> many commercial unixen, including Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. (Tru64 5.1 and
> IRIX 6.5 use UDP as the default, but are TCP-capable.)
> 
> As to "most" NFS implementations doing "only" UDP - maybe if we
> include historical implementations, but today, RISC-based commercial
> unixen, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows clients and servers, dedicated filers
> like Netapps, all have NFS over TCP implementations.

  Ahh cool, I hadn't heard that the commercial OSs had caught up to
the rest of the world yet.

     -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf