mount nfs from freebsd 7: protocol not supported

elekktretterr at exemail.com.au elekktretterr at exemail.com.au
Thu Dec 17 00:40:18 PST 2009


>     Now that you have it working, if you are doing more then just
>     playing a bit with it please be sure to use a TCP mount and
>     not a UDP mount.  Particularly between FreeBSD 7 and any
>     recent DragonFly.  A DragonFly client is capable of queueing
>     upwards of 50+ RPCs to the server concurrently and UDP mounts
>     will blow up (basically throw data away due to the socket buffers
>     not being anywhere near large enough, causing stalls).

The DragonFly box is the server, and Ive forced the FBSD nfs clients to
use TCP.

Is this the right setup?

Petr






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