nfs timeout

[Holiday]

On 10/3/05, Philip Axer <paxer at nyware.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> in my experience nfs (by udp) over long distance doesn't work very well. I
> decided to mount with -o tcp. This switches from lossy udp to the
> relieable



Wonderful! Thank you. That worked.

tcp. There are some not so good issues to, e.g. if the connection breaks
> down, the accessing process blocks (try to google).



This is where soft and intr come into play? I know there are problems there
but the consequences are not clear to me. I never do real work on a network
drive - I only had to lose a day's work once to learn that lesson. So? Not
sure. Am I putting the integrity of the drives at risk if I am only reading
and occasionally adding/deleting files.



Another hack is to tunnel your data through a vpn tunnel, which does
> basically
> the same. With the vpn thing I could establish a much better connection
> for a
> video stream over rtcp, which is based on udp.



That sounds like another project. Perhaps more fun than I want right now.


Philip
>
> Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2005 17:42 schrieb 'Forum Post,
> '@wailuku.xlogicgroup.com <http://wailuku.xlogicgroup.com>:
> > > I'm having trouble with nfs mounts using breezy.
> > >
> > > Attempts to access mounted directories hang and then
> > >
> > > after a minute or so fail with message "Input Output Error"
> > >
> > > dmesg gives
> > >
> > > nfs: server 192.168.0.100 <http://192.168.0.100> not responding, timed
> out
> > >
> > > but I can ssh to the server
> > >
> > > firewall on server is wide open
> >
> > Update: I just tried connecting using ethernet wire and - NFS works. So
> > is there some extra step of configuration I need? Is there a bug in my
> > wireless hardware? But everything else is working and even in windows
> > I can access the other linux machine over samba. So maybe there's a bug
> > in the linux driver for the atheros wireless?
> >
> > I've tried disabling eth0 thinking maybe there was a conflict, but it
> > makes no difference.
> >
> >
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