From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: NFS questions Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 09:41:02 GMT
In article <C8HD3A.4Bq@constant.demon.co.uk> slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon A Langley) writes:
>Ingar F Pedersen (ingar@cee.hw.ac.uk) wrote:
>
>: I was wondering if it is possible to connect my linux/PC to a NFS using a serial
>: line?? I do not have a docking station so I'm unable to connect using a card.
>
>Provided that you can run slip on the NFS server then this is quite straight-
>forward. I have successfully done this just to see if it would work.
>
>Unfortunately slip is far too slow for NFS and you will find performance
>very poor.
>
At 56Kbit NFS over SLIP is 'Ok' at 115,200 its bearable. However some better
suggestions. Firstly 0.99.10 supports one of the parallel port ethernet
adaptors. They are slow compared with ethernet cards proper but they are
a lot faster than a serial line. Secondly if you have a linux machine with
ethernet next to it use PLIP.
Alan