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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:28:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      spork <spork@super-g.com>
To:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS thoughts
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9812141424560.19189-100000@super-g.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812141635.IAA10419@mailgate.cadence.com>

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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Duncan Barclay wrote:

> 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.

I'm not sure if it works differently, but I'm using Wietse's "secure"
portmapper replacement.  I grabbed it so I could put acls on portmap, but
I do have two interfaces and it always seems to grab the right one...

Charles

> 
> 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.;-)
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