Kastenholz@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (11/14/87)
Does anybody have any experience, rules of thumb, guidelines, etc, about running the Sun NFS/RPC protocols over an IP gateway/router (e.g. Bridge GS/n) over a long haul line of any speed (T1, X.25, 9600Baud, 56Kb line, etc)? The configuration that I am dealing with is a large central site that is the main file store, with a number of PC's as work stations. Access to the file store (VAX 8xxx) will be by RPC/NFS. Some of the alternatives that we are looking at are using MAC level bridges to connect the Ethernets and using a *big* machine to act as a file stager at the remote Ethernet (e.g. a Sun) and doing some form of program driven file transfer from the VAX to the Sun and then RPC/NFS from pc to sun on the local net. Please send any replies to me. I will post a summary in a couple of days if there is enough. Thanks Frank Kastenholz ATEX Inc.