Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: NFS over serial link Message-ID:Date: 28 Sep 89 01:56:29 GMT References: <1139@msa3b.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 23 In-reply-to: kevin@msa3b.UUCP's message of 27 Sep 89 03:01:44 GMT kevin@msa3b.uucp writes: I'm presently attending an IBM class on TCP/IP. Their workbook says AIX NFS is only supported over Token-Ring and Ethernet. The instructor says he knows of no reason why it should not work with a serial link. Who is right? Is there anyone out there who has USED AIX NFS over a serial line? If it won't work, why not? They're both right: It's not _supported_, but it does work. I've been experimenting rather a lot with SLIP lately in preparation for leaving my office behind for the month of October, and one of the things I've tried along the way is NFS mounts over SLIP. There's not much to be said in favor of it - "comedy is not pretty" probably sums it up reasonably well. Worse, I'm doing it at slow speeds like 2400bps. A simple copy of a small (5Kbyte) file from a local disc to a remote NFS filesystem resulted in the astounding throughput of...77bytes/s. It's doable, but you don't want to do it. Use ftp if all you want is file downloading. --Karl