Routers and NFS traffic

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From: Mike Cantu
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 06:29

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Some colleagues and I were discussing a subnet design the other day, and
someone said that, for performance reasons, one shouldn't put a router
between two hosts that have a "lot" of NFS traffic between them.

The reason given was that the router would have to decode every UDP packet
in order to route it correctly, thus introducing unacceptable delays during
heavy file transfer periods.

It is my impression that a decently powered router (like maybe an MGS) would
be able to handle bursty, UDP-intensive applications like NFS with no problem.

Can anyone give me some insight on this?

Please email responses, and thanks in advance.

Mike Cantu
mike@nit.PacTel.COM
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Mike Cantu
mike@nit.PacTel.COM

"My views are my own, my company wants nothing to do with them..."

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Subject: Routers and NFS traffic
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