[ILUG] odd nfs problem...

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, kevin lyda wrote:

> that's the second dangling footnote this week.  is this some attempt at
> corrupting our minds?

ah.. no.. the footnote was at the bottom of the mail below my sig -
maybe your mailer stripped it. it was:

	1. i might be paraphrasing slightly. :)

> i've shaved down even further).  the fact is that an openbsd
> remote exploit will be such huge news when it happens i can
> pretty much skip monitoring the mailing lists.

ie, "Security dude, OpenBSD is leet!". :)

> on a sparc to, well, suck to be honest.  and i've tried a lot of kernels
> over the years.

ooh aaarrr..

> and while you're in a grumpy mood 

no no... i'm not - you missed the smiley.

> of course we could have completely avoided this conversation if
> liam had paid rent that month with an apple cinema 22" display,
> g4 cube and a copy of debian/ppc.  8^} heck i'd have thrown in
> breakfast in bed every morning...

:)

> could be a theory except that i see 0 bad or dropped packets on
> the ethernet layer. both the server and workstation use 10mb
> cards and the linux workstation with no problem is at the same
> point topologically.

just a theory. actually, my hub isnt really that bad. linux client 
forced to 10mbit didnt mind at all.

> i suspect it's an openbsd error as it is a rather ancient version
> of openbsd.

and in my case it was an ancientish version of IRIX - 6.2.

so upgrade the openbsd or upgrade the kernel on the linux server to 
2.4+rpc-ping, whatever's easier.

> kevin

regards,
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