SGI/Sun mountd errors (was Re: Power Series Iris as NFS file server?)

[Robert Viduya]

> There is a problem with Sun's backoff algorithm in 4.1 mountd, and Sun has 
> announced patches available for bugs #1035513 and #1035515 in Sun's database 
> that fix the problem. The gory details follow from a previous posting to this
> newsgroup:

	...

> The result is that SunOS4.1 clients cannot NFS mount SGI filesystems.

Under what conditions does this occur?  I mount filesystems from various
SGI hosts running 3.2 and 3.2.1 on my SparcStation running 4.1 all the
time.  Haven't noticed any problems yet.

			robert
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