Subject: Re: 802.11 vs. NFS?
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/06/2003 17:41:15
In article <200308061726.h76HQZji015435@fearless-vampire-killer.waterside.net>,
Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com> wrote:
>Folks:
> Anybody out there have good experience running NFS over 802.11?
> My experience so far has been that even with read and write sizes
> tweaked down *significantly* (I haven't tried 1k yet, 2k still has
> issues), at some point the mount just hangs. With the default of
> hard mounts, any processes looking at that FS (including df, etc.)
> hang in disk-wait.
>
> So far, I'm using all defaults (udp mounts, nfsv3) with read/write
> sizes clamped down. The client is PII or PIII laptop with a wi (a
> real Orinoco Gold) or an atw card (DLink AirCard cardbus adapter);
> the servers are a dual-PIII box connected via GigE or a Sun Ultra5
> connected via on-board hme. The AP is an Apple Airport. Right now
> I'm not doing either WEP or IPSec over 802.11 but plan on doing the
> latter, so I'd be even more interested if folks have any experience
> with that.
>
> Currently, the NFS mounts are mostly used to play audio/video off
> the big(ger) disks attached to one of the fixed machines, so it's
> not ultra-important, but would be nice to be able to play tunes
> without risking locking the machine up eventually.
I run fine with 1K.
christos