I would look then on if you are running latest patches from Sun...

Eyal.


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-----Original Message-----
From: benny.wistrom@cn.saab.se [mailto:benny.wistrom@cn.saab.se]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:57 PM
To: Traitel Eyal
Cc: NetApp Maillista
Subject: Re: Automount fails on first attempt on Solaris


The reason I have enabled NFS over TCP is that Solaris first tries this
protocol. I have the same problem when using NFS over UDP.

/Benny

> "Traitel, Eyal" wrote:
>
> Is the mounts on the AIX, HP-UX and Linux done also via TCP ?
> It might lead you to the fact that the mount over TCP just takes some
> more time to finish.
>
> Just a suggestion,
> Eyal.
>
> Why TCP by the way ?  Did you check UDP ?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: benny.wistrom@cn.saab.se [mailto:benny.wistrom@cn.saab.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:31 PM
> To: NetApp Maillista
> Subject: Automount fails on first attempt on Solaris
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a problem with automount on Solaris. The problem appears on
> both
> Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8.
> On the first attempt to access any directory located on the filer the
> automount request times out but on the second attempt it mounts the
> directory. It takes 15 seconds to mount the directory. All other
> mounts
> after the first one has been mounted works fine.
> This behaviour appears everytime I try to access a directory after the
>
> automounter has released all mounts.
> Automount works just fine on AIX, HP-UX, Linux when accessing the same
>
> directories.
>
> We use NFS version 3 and NFS over TCP is enabled on the filer.
> We have OnTap 5.3.6R2 installed on the filer.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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