From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [kNFSD] [PATCH] fixed '-p port' arg to rpc.nfsd plus more.
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:10:39 -0500
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Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> "ports".... should we allow different protocols to use different
>    ports?  2049 for tcp, but use 5123 for udp ???
I would not think so... How often has something like this
been needed in the past?

> 
>    Maybe a better interface is to open and bind a socket in userspace,
>    and pass it down to the kernel.  Maybe not..
True.... ;-)

> 
>  How about the "ports" file contains lines:
>    family:proto:address:port
>  e.g.
>    ipv4:udp:*:2049
Maybe a better name for the file should be 'address'?
since thats what we are defining....

> 
>  A port could be disabled with
>    echo "-ipv4:udp:*:2049" > /proc/fs/nfsd/ports
>  maybe.
hmm... I think I would rather just restart the server
verses disable something.... I just doesn't sound good ;-)

steved.





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