From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 09:13:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01076 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:13:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanuata (vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk [130.209.240.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01054 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk) Received: from solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk (actually host solander) by vanuata with SMTP (MMTA) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:12:35 +0000 Received: (from simonm@localhost) by solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA19357; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:12:31 GMT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.5 NFS troubles From: Simon Marlow Date: 10 Feb 1998 17:12:31 +0000 Message-ID: Lines: 79 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Folks, I've been having several problems with NFS (mostly serving, but some client trouble too) on my FreeBSD box. The box exports a few filesystems to our local network, using NFSv3 (some of the machines on this net don't seem to make NFSv2 mounts). Here's a rough run-down of the problems I've had: - A remote client will hang sometimes. This is seem most often on Sparc/Solaris boxes. I assumed it was the problem mentioned in the section on NFS in the Handbook, and duly bought a faster ethernet card (a PCI NE2000 card), but the problem still persists. - remote Alpha/OSF3 machines have trouble communicating NFSv3 (only) with a FreeBSD server, resulting in missing directory entries. I submitted a PR for this one, since it's repeatable, but no-one seems to have taken it up. - I've seen problems with a FreeBSD client talking to a Solaris server (either NFSv3 or NFSv2). If I do a large lndir of a remote tree from the FreeBSD box, some of the symbolic links will be messed up. This is fairly repeatable. These are really starting to kill me. Many thanks to anyone who can help. dmesg included below. Cheers, Simon Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE #0: Mon Feb 2 10:45:09 GMT 1998 simonm@solander.dcs.gla.ac.uk:/export/local/ets2/FreeBSD/src/sys/compile/SOLANDER CPU: Pentium Pro (199.31-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping=9 Features=0xf9ff real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 129593344 (126556K bytes) DEVFS: ready for devices Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 2 on pci0:0 chip1 rev 1 on pci0:1:0 chip2 rev 0 on pci0:1:1 vga0 rev 1 int a irq 12 on pci0:9 ed1 rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:10 ed1: address 00:4f:49:04:4e:f5, type NE2000 (16 bit) ahc0 rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:11 ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs (ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST32430N 0320" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:1:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5701TA 0167" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ahc0:1:0): CD-ROM can't get the size (ahc0:6:0): "IBM DCAS-34330 S60B" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface lpt1 not found at 0xffffffff fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface sb0 not found at 0x220 DEVFS: ready to run To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message