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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-03 19:01:19 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-01-03 19:01:19 +0000
commita4df6aa4f6978b0effb50b45102c4556309be477 (patch)
treee7d76fc3cd889f60690422bdd0921fdd65537ee5 /sbin
parent4e2b128bb034c18f31c42037af3e1abd549affd5 (diff)
most modern implementations of nfsd support TCP, not just 4.4BSD;
prompted by a similar commit in freebsd. do not recommend TCP; ok millert
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/mount_nfs/mount_nfs.812
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mount_nfs/mount_nfs.8 b/sbin/mount_nfs/mount_nfs.8
index 2c88aabe99d..2703457a5e5 100644
--- a/sbin/mount_nfs/mount_nfs.8
+++ b/sbin/mount_nfs/mount_nfs.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mount_nfs.8,v 1.35 2005/06/29 20:48:05 jaredy Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mount_nfs.8,v 1.36 2006/01/03 19:01:18 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mount_nfs.8,v 1.3 1996/02/18 11:59:10 fvdl Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
@@ -193,9 +193,7 @@ round trip timeout intervals have been reached (see
.Fl x ) .
.It Fl T
Use TCP instead of UDP.
-This is recommended for servers that are not on the same LAN cable as
-the client.
-(NB: This is NOT supported by most non-BSD servers.)
+Note that TCP may not be supported by some very old NFS servers.
.It Fl t Ar timeout
Set the initial retransmit timeout to the specified value.
May be useful for fine tuning UDP mounts over internetworks
@@ -267,9 +265,3 @@ a reserved port is always used.
Due to the way that Sun RPC is implemented on top of UDP (unreliable datagram),
tuning such mounts is really a black art that can only be expected
to have limited success.
-For clients mounting servers that are not on the same
-LAN cable or that tend to be overloaded,
-TCP is strongly recommended,
-but unfortunately this is restricted to mostly
-.Bx 4.4
-servers.