From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: Intermittent RHE3-u3 client mount failures to Netapp fileserver
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:47:20 -0800
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To: "Olaf Kirch" <okir@suse.de>
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olaf-

as we consider the changes you suggested to the port allocation
algorithm, can we think about the port blacklisting problem too?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Waychison [mailto:Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:43 AM
> To: Lever, Charles
> Cc: David Meleedy; nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [NFS] Intermittent RHE3-u3 client mount failures=20
> to Netapp fileserver
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> Lever, Charles wrote:
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> > and check the hardware too.  we had an IPMI hardware=20
> implementation from
> > Intel at one point that took a port without notifying the operating
> > system, and that caused similar failures.
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> I've seen this too with e1000 hardware.  I usually blacklist the ports
> by adding the 623 for udp / tcp to my (x)inetd config and=20
> pointing them
> to /bin/true.
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> I'm wondering if anybody has figured out a way to 'blacklist' these
> ports somehow from within the drivers..    ..probably best left as a
> hotplug event.
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