[NCLUG] NFS question

[John L. Bass]

"Christopher J. Keist" <CJ.Keist at engr.colostate.edu> writes:
>      100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
>      100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
>
> Anyone know why it would not be showing tcp for nfs?  Is this something  
> to worry about?  All my other file servers, all Solaris, show both udp  
> and tcp nfs.

NFS defaults as a UDP protocol, a natural side effect of being a packet oriented
service rather than a data stream which is more suited for TCP.

John