Lite5200 NFS mount issue

[Grant Likely]

On 9/21/06, Andersson Tord <Tord.Andersson at combitech.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some additional information on the problems we had with NFS on the Lite5200 card and the
> 2.4.25 kernel (DENX linuxppc_2_4_devel 2006-04-06) .
> When analyzing the IP traffic with Etherreal, it was seen that the problems were
> caused by loss of fragmented IP-packets. When the IP fragmentation was removed by forcing NFS's
> UDP size to less than the Ethernet MTU size, the problems disappeared.
> We used the kernel NFS argument option to this effect;
>
>         nfsroot=${serverip}:${rootpath},rsize=1024,wsize=1024

After having similar problems, I've had good luck by forcing nfs to
use tcp by appending ',tcp' to the nfsroot= argument.

g.


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