Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 17:28:47 -0500 (CDT) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Mr T Crummey) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS mount problems with multi-homed NFS servers Message-ID: <9509292228.AA04930@olympus> In-Reply-To: <9029.9509252219@hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk> from "Mr T Crummey" at Sep 25, 95 11:19:35 pm
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> > 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? Yes. mount_nfs -c In otherwords, the noconn option. I am not sure how to make this work with /etc/fstab but this is where you want to start looking. Boyd > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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