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... ports of two Sun 3/60's. "ping", "rlogin", etc., works fine, but a NFS mount results in "server not responding: RPC Timed Out". ...
... SLIP doesn't perform checksums thus running NFS over SLIP requires you to turn the UDP checksum ...



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