From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 13:53:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09770 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:53:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from janus.utilicom.com (janus.utilicom.com [204.188.4.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09764 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:53:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lpoulsen@utilicom.com) Received: from Lars (lars-pc.utilicom.com [204.188.4.134]) by janus.utilicom.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA07516; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:53:54 -0800 Message-Id: <199902082153.NAA07516@janus.utilicom.com> X-Sender: lpoulsen@janus.utilicom.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:53:26 -0800 To: Thomas David Rivers From: Lars Poulsen Subject: Re: Strange NFS Problem Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902082144.QAA08234@lakes.dignus.com> References: <199902082133.NAA07381@janus.utilicom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:44 PM 2/8/99 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > First - I'm dying to know what application is only available for FreeBSD! >(That's a good sign!) This is a network simulation package, which uses the kernel interface to allow interaction with devices on the real network. Pretty cool stuff! > Second - when you say NFS mounts from an HP-UX system, do you mean >HP-UX <-> LINUX or HP <-> FreeBSD? The file system resides on Linux (RedHat 5.2). A HP-UX system imports it and can read and write correctly. FreeBSD fails to write (but creates empty files). > Third - I believe there were some NFS bugs in the 2.2.x branch that >were not fixed. (Seems like I saw that mentioned on the -hackers list) >When 3.1 comes out (next week?) you might consider upgrading to that. I scanned the GNATS database and didn't find anything relevant. I have read some of the correspondence, and it looks like the upgrade from 2.2.x to 3.1 is going to be painful; I was hoping to put it off. / Lars Poulsen E-mail: Senior Software Engineer Telephone: +1-805-964-5848 ext 279 UtiliCom Inc, 323 David Love Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message