From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 02:47:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA07480 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 02:47:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from radford.i-plus.net (root@[208.24.67.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA07475 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 02:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rewt@i-Plus.net) Received: from abyss (pitlord@dead.i-Plus.net [206.99.237.44]) by radford.i-plus.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA00853 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:46:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: "(ML) FreeBSD Questions" Subject: NFS revisited - is it just me, or is this messed up? Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:53:28 -0500 Message-ID: <01bce2c6$8e862810$2ced63ce@abyss> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, after much playing around, I finally got NFS working again. Here's what happened: Originally, I was mounting NFS volumes between 2 machines, and everything worked fine. After a network renumbering, NFS refused to work, and would crash the client machine. I finally found the problem: inet 208.24.67.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 208.24.67.255 inet 208.24.67.15 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 208.24.67.15 .2 is the primary IP on the NSF server, .15 is an aliased IP I was trying to NFS mount useing the aliased IP, which was causing problems. I was only successful after trying the primary IP. What gives? Shouldn't this work either way? I stumbled on the solution when trying to use tftpd on the same server. trying to load a firmware image to a terminal server, tftpd kept refusing connection. Finally in a fit, I typed in the actual IP address of the machine (as opposed to the name for the aliased IP), and it worked. Scratching my head, I tried this with NFS, and it too worked. Could someone please explain to me what's up with this? Why it's gotta be so frustrating? My shell server was down for days while I sat around scratching my head trying to figure it out. (No mention of this stuff in the manpage, handbook, or FAQ) Thanks, -- Troy Settle -- - -- - -- -- Got 'Net? -- Network Administrator | This space | Explore the world with st@i-Plus.net | for rent | iPlus Internet Services ICQ: 1625842 -- - -- - -- http://www.i-Plus.net