NFS for ESIX

[Richard Foulk]

>   I'd like to get comments from anybody who's had experience using 
>ESIX's NFS to link to Suns or other Unix platforms.  I've been running 
>ESIX Rev C TCP/IP for Telnet and FTP links with Suns here on our ethernet 
>and it seems to work well.  My next step will be to upgrade to Rev D and get
>the ESIX NFS package going.  The ultimate goal is to get NFS running on an 
>ESIX 486 system and try it out as a low cost server for some of our slower 
>Suns (3/50s and 60s).  Before I dive into this I thought I'd check with the 
>net to see if anybody has tried this yet, or am I nuts ;)  I'll sum up 
>to the net if there's enough interest.

It kinda sounds like a bad idea because of the short file names.
Things would probably get messy when the Suns tried to create files
greater than 14 character long.

I've been thinking about doing something similar, but figured it would
have to wait until SVR4 becomes available.


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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com