Peter Smithson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our system administrator doesn't have time to look at this so I thought
> I'd have a look. I'm a developer and don't know much about networks
> etc. so please bear with me.
>
> We have a 64 bit AIX 5.2 box which can't use NFS due to time out errors.
> I've found that using ftp or rcp is very very slow - ftp reports about
> 20kb/s. This is between the AIX machine and another UNIX machine on a
> 100Mb/s ethernet hub.
>
> We've got about 10 or so UNIX machines on this hub running various
> versions of UNIX. We have a 32 bit AIX 4.3 machine which works fine.
>
> I've used SMIT to look at the ethernet card. It's set to auto
> negotiation which we've had problems with on other systems. Setting it
> to 100Mbs doesn't help.
>
> I tried doing an error log but nothing appeared in it other than the
> start/stop messages. While the error log was running I tried to use an
> NFS drive and got the usual error -
>
> A remote host did not respond within the timeout period.
> NFS write error on host sgnfs1: 78.

you way check in /etc/filesystems , if (on of) the mount options of this
mount point in questions is set to `soft'

if so could try to set it to `hard'

Once it helped me.
See `man mount' for details.

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