From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 14 08:35:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09180 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.cadence.com (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09175 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:35:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mailgate.cadence.com (8.8.5/8.6.8) id IAA10419 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:35:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812141635.IAA10419@mailgate.cadence.com> Received: from symnt3.Cadence.COM(194.32.101.100) by mailgate.cadence.com via smap (mjr-v1.2) id xma913653330.010409; Mon, 14 Dec 98 08:35:30 -0800 Received: from pc287-cam.cadence.com (d194032096069.Cadence.COM [194.32.96.69]) by symnt3.Cadence.COM with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id XS4YG6G6; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:36:01 -0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Duncan Barclay" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:35:00 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: NFS thoughts Reply-to: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk References: <19981214073605.20458@cicely.de> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Bernd Walter wrote: > > Another issue is that when using NFS with multihomed hosts the client ask on > > one IP address of the server and the server replies using another of his IPs, > > so the client is discarding the answers and still waiting. > > -- > > B.Walter I wonder, do you see the retuned IP address to be the IP address of the first up network interface? If so this is due to the portmapper (I think) binding to the first IP interface it finds which is marked up. Try using NFS with point-to-point interface set upand ifconfig'd on the parallel port but nothing on the other end but. Probe the parallel port before any of the NICs and watch things fall over... Duncan PS. Of course, this may have been fixed, but it was a problem about 9months ago when I was playing with a laptop.;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message