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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:36:53 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Forcing IP packets through a virtual interface?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970331093605.534D-100000@kipper.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199703302038.PAA03573@homeport.org>

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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Adam Shostack wrote:

> 	I'm having a problem NFS mounting disks where the server is a
> FreeBSD (2.1.5) machine with several virtual interfaces and the client
> is an OpenBSD 2.0 machine.  The freebsd machine has two web servers in
> two domains (www.homeport.org, www.chips4less.com).
> 
> 	Having looked at a lot of tcpdumps, I believe that the problem
> is that when Openbsd is trying to mount from machine A, it is
> unwilling to accept NFS packets from machine B.
> 
> 	Is there a way to force Freebsd to respond on the interface to
> which a packet was addressed?  I've examined the release notes for
> versions between 2.1.5 and the current -RELEASE, and didn't see
> anything that seemed applicable.  (I'm considering moving the machine
> to 2.2.1, to get the NFS 3 code, and see if that works any better, but
> don't want to move without knowing that it will/is likely to fix the
> problem.)

In the meantime, you might try using the -c flag to mount_nfs on the
OpenBSD box.  I am not sure if this will help, but it might.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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