[lug] UDP Over NFS

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Mon Oct 29 14:56:32 MDT 2007


man fstab says to look at man 5 nfs

It states "udp" is the name of the option for fstab and "Mount  the  NFS filesystem using the UDP protocol.  This is the default."

It looks like you can also do "proto=udp" as an option for the nfs4 file system type.

Hugh


On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:32:40PM -0600, Nathan Berry wrote:
> No, someone told me NFS V3 defaulted to TCP.  In Solaris land I used to just
> add "proto=udp" to the vfstab entry.
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/29/07, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Nathan Berry wrote:
> >
> > > I need to setup some NFS mounts that are not TCP but UDP.  What do I
> > > type in my fstab file to accomplish this?  I am using RH ES4.
> >
> >
> > NFS is UDP by default.  Did you turn that off?
> >






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