Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!elroy!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!MIT-MULTICS.ARPA!Kastenholz From: Kastenholz@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: RPC/NFS over IP Routers Message-ID: <871114000654.914431@MIT-Multics.ARPA> Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 19:06:00 EST Article-I.D.: MIT-Mult.871114000654.914431 Posted: Fri Nov 13 19:06:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 17:36:37 EST Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 19 Does anybody have any experience, rules of thumb, guidelines, etc, about running the Sun NFS/RPC protocols over an IP gateway/router (e.g. Bridge GS/n) over a long haul line of any speed (T1, X.25, 9600Baud, 56Kb line, etc)? The configuration that I am dealing with is a large central site that is the main file store, with a number of PC's as work stations. Access to the file store (VAX 8xxx) will be by RPC/NFS. Some of the alternatives that we are looking at are using MAC level bridges to connect the Ethernets and using a *big* machine to act as a file stager at the remote Ethernet (e.g. a Sun) and doing some form of program driven file transfer from the VAX to the Sun and then RPC/NFS from pc to sun on the local net. Please send any replies to me. I will post a summary in a couple of days if there is enough. Thanks Frank Kastenholz ATEX Inc.