Date: Mon, 19 Oct 92 09:40:43 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #39 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 19 Oct 92 Volume 5 : Issue 39 Today's Topics: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #37 (SLIP & NFS --ed) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 00:16:24 -0400 From: mcr@latour.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca (Michael Richardson) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #37 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu In article <9210051423.AA22025@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu> you write: >From: brook@trillium.botany.utexas.edu (Brook Milligan) > >Has anyone had experience running NFS over serial lines via something >like SLIP? Is this impossibly slow? If not, what hardware do you I have done it at v.32bis speeds (ZyXel U-1496E (me) <-> Intel 14.4 (work)). Slow? Yes. Painfull? Depends on what you are doing. As I recall, I was just editing an NFS file with GNU Emacs running on my end (4.1.0 on a 3/60). Once the file was read in, clearly there was no problem. Doing ls, and cd's is no big deal, although any options to ls (e.g. -F, -l) will slow it down noticeably. I wouldn't try a compile though. I hosted FrameMaker on an RS/6000 with the display at home. Real fun... It couldn't keep up with my typing. Xterms are marginal, multple telnets in local windows are very pleasant. Unfortunately, our slip network doesn't have an NFSnet routing entry (yet), so reaching beyond uunet.ca is impossible. >from a remote location via serial lines, perhaps through the campus >terminal server. Am I dreaming? A bit. Make sure you turn on UDP checksumming though. I haven't yet, but I only ran it once a couple of weeks ago. I don't recall the exact symbol that needs to be adb'ed in your kernel, but could find it in a couple of minutes if someone doesn't have fully-baked instructions... -- :!mcr!: | The postmaster never | So much mail, Michael Richardson | resolves twice. | so little time. HOME: mcr@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca Bell: (613) 237-5629 SCHOOL: 192228@physics.carleton.ca ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************