[ale] Odd Network issue?

[Dow Hurst]

May we have the specs on your MTU and also if you go thru any routers on
the way from the NFS server to the NFS client?  What is the packet read
write size specified on the mounts in /etc/fstab?  Larger than 8Kb?
Dow

"Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> 
> Situation:
> 
> 3 linux clients mount a linux NFS share, cd to /tmp/mnt/data/dir.
> 
> Do an "ls" and 3-5 lines return just fine.  Do an "ls -laR" and it
> returns about 50 lines then hangs.  After 5-10 minutes it returns the
> difference.
> 
> A sniffer trace generates a "TTL" error on reassembling fragmented
> packets until it decides to return the rest of the data.
> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this?  The boxes are Redhat 6.0 with
> kernel 2.2.12, Redhat 7.0 running 2.2.16 and Debian Sid running 2.4.17.
> 
> Theories?
> 
> :wq!
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