Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422837AbWJLIn6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:43:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422843AbWJLIn6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:43:58 -0400 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:155 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422837AbWJLIn5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:43:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPC traffic From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Trond Myklebust , Alan Cox , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, Chuck Lever In-Reply-To: References: <20061010165621.394703368@quad.kroah.org> <20061010171429.GD6339@kroah.com> <1160610353.7015.8.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1160615547.20611.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1160616905.6596.14.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:35:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1160642150.2955.6.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.395 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 29 On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:58 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Interestingly, Linux is not the only OS that has been hit by this > >problem: > > > > http://blogs.sun.com/shepler/entry/port_623_or_the_mount > > There is more to it. On a machine I had set up a second, > experimental, apache on port 880. And it randomly failed to start on > a boot because mountd had taken the port first. FWIW I had the same experience several times with port 631 (aka "IPP") taken by some RPC service and CUPS simply didn't worked. > Man, this RPC stuff should go and use fixed ports. Hmm, starting the portmapper as late as possible so that other services get the chance to use their ports? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/