easy to get confused Re: UDP/NFS

[Mark.Reeder@reuters.com]

On 09/11/2001 09:20:16 Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:04:16AM +0000, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
> > ... does not run on UDP.  I don't think NFS does either.
>
> Yes it does.
>
> > You forget that UDP stands for Unreliable Datagram Protocol,
>
> No it doesn't.

For those too busy to google, see:

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/comms/nfs.html
...TEASINGLY says
 NFS normally uses the UDP protocol and servers listen on port 2049.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/NFS.html
...references
Virtual File System (VFS) that runs on top of TCP/IP.

and UDP http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/UDP.html



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