ISC 386/ix 2.0.2 with TCP/IP & NFS crashes absolutely ALL T

[Bruce M Ong]

>We are having SEVERE problems with our machine crashing and hanging several
>times a day running host based TCP/IP 1.1.1 and NFS 2.0 under 386/ix 2.0.2.
>
>We get the "NFS server not responding" message very frequently; sometimes it
>recovers by itself, but much more often it dies completely and any process
>accessing a remote mount point will hang permenantly.
>
	If you are using the 3com ethernet driver, make sure you mount
the remote disks from your 386 sysetm with

	#mount -f NFS,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 remote:/partition /local/partition

	I have the same versions of TCP/IP, NFS, and 386 ix, and ran into
the same problem before. I still run into server not responding problems
when I do massive cp(1) from a sparc station to a 386/ix. (it wont happen
if I originate my copy from the 386/ix.)

>		Better go quick before it crashes again...... :-(
>							Greyham.
>
>ps: email me a copy if you post a reply please.
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