<div>On 10/3/05, Philip Axer <<a href="mailto:paxer@nyware.de">paxer@nyware.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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</blockquote><div> Wonderful! Thank you. That worked. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">tcp. There are some not so good issues to, e.g. if the connection breaks down, the accessing process blocks (try to google). </blockquote><div> 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. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.</blockquote><div> That sounds like another project. Perhaps more fun than I want right now. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Philip Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2005 17:42 schrieb 'Forum Post, '@<a href="http://wailuku.xlogicgroup.com"> wailuku.xlogicgroup.com</a>: > > 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 <a href="http://192.168.0.100">192.168.0.100</a> 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. > > > -- > holiday -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>