Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932526AbWJLPBo (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:01:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932529AbWJLPBo (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:01:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:15950 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932526AbWJLPBn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:01:43 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,301,1157353200"; d="scan'208"; a="417383402:sNHT47749452" Subject: Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPC traffic From: Trond Myklebust To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Network Appliance Inc Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:01:17 -0700 Message-Id: <1160665277.6004.27.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Oct 2006 15:01:35.0263 (UTC) FILETIME=[4F8452F0:01C6EE0F] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 914 Lines: 23 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. > Man, this RPC stuff should go and use fixed ports. man 8 mountd and check out the '-p' option. statd has a similar one. Even the in-kernel lockd daemon's can be set to listen to fixed ports. So there really shouldn't be any problems nailing down your RPC ports. Cheers, Trond - 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/