From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 15:23:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA24628 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:23:28 -0700 Received: from hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk (hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk [147.143.102.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA24615 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:23:24 -0700 Message-Id: <9029.9509252219@hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk> Received: from pan (pan.sees.bangor.ac.uk) by hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk; Mon, 25 Sep 95 23:19:33 BST Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 23:19:35 0100 From: "Mr T Crummey (DIJ)" Organization: SEECS, University of Wales, Bangor X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NFS mount problems with multi-homed NFS servers X-Url: http://www.cdrom.com/support_page/freebsd_support.html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, We have a problem where some FreeBSD clients (2.0.5) are unable to mount (using amd) home directories from SUN servers (4.1.4) where the SUN server has 2 ethernet interfaces. Having used tcpdump to see what it going on, we see that the FreeBSD machine makes a DNS request and is returned the first interface address. The NFS lookup request is then sent to this address and the server replies. Unfortunately the server replies with the IP number of the nearest interface to the client, i.e. a different IP number. The FreeBSD machine then returns an ICMP port unreachable error and the mount request hangs. If we do a mount command, the mount will work if the IP address of the nearest interface is used. Has anyone got a sane fix for this problem? Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Crummey, EMAIL: tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk | /\ University of Wales, Bangor, | / \/\ School of Electronic Engineering Science, | /\/ \ \ Dean Street, Bangor, TEL: +44 (0)1248 382694 | / ======\=\ Gwynedd, LL57 1UT, U.K. FAX: +44 (0)1248 361429 | B A N G O R -------------------------------------------------------------------------------