"David E. Cross" wrote: > A tcpdump on the client shows seemingly normal request/reponses from the > server and _lots_ of NFS Null requests from client-->server. I am guessing > this is the client trying to see if the server is back? This is on the order > of many times a second:
Null requests are used for two reasons; the first is to determine if the RPC server is there; the second is as part of the support for asynchronous calls (see the RPC Programming Guide for details). > Ethernet card in question is a 3c950C in the server and a FXP 100B in the > client (client is also 4.6.2). I tested another machine with a 3c950C and > the same client with no errors. I would say hardware but this is too > predictable with no dataloss, and this is seemingly initiated on the client. > > Any ideas on where to look? You haven't said why this is actually a problem, at all. If it just did this recently, though, I would look for what has changed on the client. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
