8 Nov
2001
8 Nov
'01
2:30 p.m.
"Noll, Kevin" kevin.noll@cgey.com writes:
TCP is disabled, however, I was under the impression that TCP would be a better prot to use.
Typically you want to run NFS over UDP if your clients are topologically close to the server, since UDP has less overhead than TCP.
If you have, say, a couple of routers between the server and the client, and you might run into some package loss, you might benefit from running over TCP.
This is the theory. In practice it seems NFS over TCP sometimes is a little bit faster than UDP even if you're on the same LAN, depending on the involved software and hardware and the phase of the moon.
However, in most scenarios, UDP *is* faster than TCP.
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Leif Nixon Sysadm/developer Ericsson SoftLab AB
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