> So why did they implement NFS using UDP? This just seems > goofy to me. Theres an option to run NFS on TCP, > but it's not the default. UDP has a lot less overhead and is much faster over a clean/fast network. > > I was putting up with this for way too long, mostly because > I reached my limit on hassles to contend with. "I don't > want to debug this now, all I want to do is get this lousy > video file from box A to box B ten feet away." > So I used scp, although that seems stupid in the privacy of your > own basement. but what else is there? ftp, http? Those > seem stupid too. Rsync? That sounds good "BZZZZ" you > lose, can't do rsync(without -e ssh, or setting up a rsync > server) with a few stock RH boxes. > Doesn't RH come with OpenSSH installed by default now? And what's so hard about using -e ssh?