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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:25:16 +0800
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewalling NFS
Message-ID:  <20070615082516.GA96373@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
In-Reply-To: <20070615072734.GC8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:35AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It appears nearly impossible to firewall a NFS server on FreeBSD.
> The reason is that NFS related daemons use RPC, which means they
> don't bind to a deterministic port.  Only mountd(8) can be requested to
> bind to a specific port or fail with the -p command-line switch.
> Is there any reason other than "no one has needed this yet" why this
> option is not available for nfsd(8), rpc.lockd(8) and rpc.statd(8)?

Why do you need such option for nfsd(8) in first place?

Eugene Grosbein
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