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Subject: Re: NFSv4 - how to set up at FreeBSD 8.1 ?
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Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> ... one of the fundamental principals for NFSv2, 3 was a stateless
> server ...

Only as long as UDP transport was used.  Any NFS implementation that
used TCP for transport had thereby abandoned the stateless server
principle, since a TCP connection itself requires that state be
maintained on both ends.