Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:32:11 -0500 From: "Eric L. Anderson" <anderson@more.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max NFS mounts for a FreeBSD client? Message-ID: <20070802163211.GI27098@more.net> In-Reply-To: <20070721202327.T83919@fledge.watson.org> References: <20070720145932.GP6053@more.net> <20070720180546.X39675@fledge.watson.org> <20070721104525.44603382@localhost> <20070721040009.GB21336@more.net> <20070721202327.T83919@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:24:09PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Eric L. Anderson wrote:
>
> >I can not change lowfirst to any higher amount. I did change lowlast from
> >600 to 1 and now I can mount more than 1000 NFS mounts. This is great but
> >what kind of side effects am I introducing by making this change?
>
> The risk, btw, is that those reserved ports may no longer be available for
> other use, as they may collide with other services you might want to have,
> especially if those services want to bind INADDR_ANY.
I had a look at the manpage for mount_nfs and the default is to use a
reserved socket port number. There is also the option to not use a
reserved socket port number ("-N") and that has taken care of our
problem.
--
Eric L. Anderson
anderson@more.net
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