Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 17:15:54 -0500 (CDT) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: mikebo@tellabs.com (Mike Borowiec) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD v2.0.5: NFS to multi-homed server broken? Message-ID: <9507182215.AA29792@olympus> In-Reply-To: <m0sYKha-000jBmC@tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com> from "Mike Borowiec" at Jul 18, 95 05:01:13 pm
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> > faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) wrote: > > mikebo@tellabs.com (Mike Borowiec) wrote: > > > I have found some anomolous NFS behaviour in FreeBSD 2.0.5R. > > > > > > Problem 1: > > > FreeBSD attempts to NFS mount a partition from a multi-homed server not > > > on the same ethernet, and the return route from the server to the FreeBSD > > > client is via another interface (with a different hostname and IP address). > > > If done manually, the mount command can be killed. If the mount is in the > > > /etc/fstab file, the machine hangs on startup and must be reset. > > > > Been there, done that. You need the noconn option. This way, when it comes > > back along a different route, there is not a connnection already in force. > > I think this is the -c option if you use mount_nfs directly. Anyway, > > -o noconn solved the problem for me. > > > This may work if the portmapper reply port number is non-standard > ( != 111/udp ), but having tried numerous combinations of conn, noconn > and mount_nfs -c, it appears to me that it does nothing when the > portmapper reply is from the proper host, but from a different IP address. > > Does anyone else have any clue how this works in SunOS? > - Mike > -- Well, it worked for me in 2.0, for exactly the problem you've cited. But this WAS under the guise of amd, the automount daemon. Now I am getting NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out. If I get this resolved, I'll let you know. amd still works though. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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