From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: 2 feature requests for lockd
Date: 14 Jun 2002 14:27:36 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Patrice DUMAS <dumas@centre-cired.fr> writes:

    >> Tunnelling should be done by setting up a proper virtual
    >> point-to-point interface. That would do the job without needing
    >> any of these hacks.

     > I agree again, but the point in tunneling rpc based services
     > through ssh like with sec_rpc, is that it is quite easy to set
     > up, almost off the box. Maybe there exists point-to-point
     > solutions as easy to set up but I don't know them.

In that case, if there is sufficient demand for it, perhaps this would
be a project worth investigating in its own right? I must admit that I
for one am still not entirely sure which tool is best for the job: I
once suggested the TUN/TAP interface, but perhaps there are better
candidates?

The point is that we don't want to have to reinvent the wheel for NFS,
then SMBFS, CIFS, <insert flavour-of-the-month-networking-filesystem
here>. In particular if this will involve unnecessary messing about
with new incompatible APIs for the NFS utilities and mount programs,
then I for one don't want to know. At least not until somebody has
seriously looked into how much work the business of "doing it right"
would involve.

Cheers,
  Trond

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