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Date:      Sat, 24 May 1997 17:40:37 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3COM stuff
Message-ID:  <199705240810.RAA05616@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970524090739.331H-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "May 24, 97 09:08:18 am"

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Doug Rabson stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > NFS on those cards is _BAD_.  If at all possible, do an FTP install.
> > If you must use NFS, make sure the rsize parameter is _small_ - I
> > recommend 1024 as a general rule.
> 
> In theory, NFS over TCP should be usable with these cards.

This is why?  I would have thought that an 8k read would result in 8k
of packets, unless the window is somehow reduced through magic
knowledge of the card's receive capabilities...?

> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com

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