From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: NFS mount over IPv6 success Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 17:41:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20081109164132.GA19615@uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no ([129.241.93.19]:38803 "EHLO cassarossa.samfundet.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755358AbYKIQlg (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:41:36 -0500 Received: from trofast.ipv6.sesse.net ([2001:700:300:1803:20e:cff:fe36:a766] helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KzDLx-0003b5-Q7 for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:41:34 +0100 Received: from root by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KzDLw-00056o-Kv for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:41:32 +0100 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I'm sure others have gotten this to work at some point, but it's finally gotten to the point where I could get it to work myself, so I thought I could share my success story: - Vanilla 2.6.28-rc3 client (2.6.26 also worked, although not with NFSv4) - Solaris 10 server - libtirpc from git (git://git.infradead.org/~steved/libtirpc.git) - IPv6-patched nfs-utils from git (git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/cel/nfs-utils.git) After recompiling (actually making Debian packages of) the client software, it was just a matter of mounting. 2.6.26 had some issues with IPv6 address literals -- only DNS worked -- but 2.6.28-rc3 did both just fine. I haven't done extensive testing, but this looks pretty good :-) Now I'm just waiting for the server support to get ready in the same way, and then for everything to trickle into mainline. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/