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From: freiss@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Freiss)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PC/NFS destroys files ??
Keywords: PC NFS data corruption
Message-ID: <523@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 89 13:24:31 GMT
Organization: Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn, Germany
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Hi,
we have problems with PC/NFS. All of our PC's lose data or get garbled
packets from time to time - we don't even get an errormessage when this
happens. I already lost some sources this way; sometimes chunks right
in the middle of a file are missing, sometimes the file gets partly
garbled.

Is anybody out there who has the same problems and/or has some pointers
on what is going on here?
I think (vague idea) that the frequency of errors correlates with the
load on our ethernet, I never have problems in the evening or early in
the morning when the network load is low.

NFS links between our hosts work ok, so my guess is that it's the PC
who is the culprit.

Configuration:
 PC with SUN PC/NFS 3.0.1, DOS 3.3, WD8003E board

Host:
 Nixdorf Targon/35 and Nixdorf Targon/31

Any & all help is appreciated. Thanks!

-Martin

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