Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 13:29:16 -0400 From: Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, malte@webmore.com Subject: Re: Who's Broken: Sun or FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3537916C.673BFE68@dgms.com> References: <3.0.32.19980417113618.00752b2c@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
>
> At 12:54 16.04.98 -0400, Gary Algier wrote:
> >I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 running on my desktop machine here at work. It is
> >on one of the two subnets and I am trying to nfs mount our file server
> >and it hangs forever. (FreeBSD can't even reboot. It hangs right after
> >syncing the disks.) I ran tcpdump & tcpshow and found out that someone
> >is messed up: either Sun or FreeBSD.
> >
> >A few (faked to protect the guilty) details:
> > Client:
> > Hostname: client
> > OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6
> > IP1: 192.168.2.10 (client)
> > Server:
> > Hostame: server
> > IP1: 192.168.1.1 (server)
> > IP2: 192.168.2.1 (xxx-server)
> > Yes, the server is also configured to forward. It is our "router".
>
> Seems as you aliased one IP. Which one is the alias ?
Neither. The Sun has two ethernet interfaces in it. It is routing between
two subnets. I am trying to mount via the interface "on the other side".
It is replying as if I requested the mount via "this side".
> >
> >If I mount with:
> > mount xxx-server:/home /mnt
> >It works just fine.When I try to mount with:
> > mount server:/home /mnt
> >It hangs forever.
> >
> >By looking at the packets I can see the following conversation:
> > Source ip/port Dest ip/port
> > 192.168.2.10/971 192.168.1.1/111 portmapper request
> > 192.168.2.1/111 192.168.2.10/971 portmapper reply
> >This goes on forever.
>
> As you can see. 192.168.1.1 gets the request, 192.168.2.1 responds on the
> request. So again, Which one is the alias ?
So again, neither.
> Malte Lance
> malte@webmore.com
>
> >
> >It looks like the sun is replying using the wrong interface ip address
> >and freebsd is ignoring it.
> >
> >Who is wrong? (I think Sun) How do I get it fixed? How do I get
> >freebsd to accept the bad data? Hummingbird NFS on the NT PCs here
> >works just fine with bad responses.
> >
> >Using the "xxx-server" name is not a good option. I am trying to use amd
> >and it can't differentiate when someone types "ls /h/server/home/me".
> >
[...]
BTW: I ran tcpdump on the FreeBSD machine.
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