Comment 5 for bug 656889

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In , Tom (tom-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Because it is a really really old system running an NFS from before NFS
ever heard of TCP. (Personally I can't imagine what was running through
the brains of the original NFS developers when they picked UDP as the
original protocol to use, but that's a different question :-). We need
to run these old systems to support software on them.