Return-Path: Received: from neil.brown.name ([220.233.11.133]:37303 "EHLO neil.brown.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753163AbZEGOFy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 10:05:54 -0400 Received: from brown by neil.brown.name with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M24EU-0006cL-0H for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 00:05:54 +1000 In-Reply-To: <4A02DAA8.6050005@bio.ifi.lmu.de> References: <4A02DAA8.6050005@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:34:51 -0300 Message-ID: From: Leonardo Chiquitto To: Frank Steiner Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [NFS] nfs-over-tcp still needs udp ports? (SLES 11) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 > Now when the NFS client is running SLES 11 with its kernel 2.6.27, > the NFS server tries to make UDP connections from its ports 111 and > 700 to different ports on the client. > > If the client is running SLES 10 with 2.6.16, those connections are > not tried from the server, no matter if the server runs 2.6.16 or > 2.6.27. > > So I've two questions: > 1) Should nfs-over-tcp still use any UDP ports at all? > 2) What has been changed in the client code between 2.6.16 and 2.6.27 > ? that could cause this behaviour? By default it is now using UDP to connect to mountd. > Is there a way to prevent those UDP connects? Yes, add "mountproto=tcp" to your mount options. Regards, Leonardo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@lists.sourceforge.net is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs