From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [KNFSD] [PATCH] fixed '-p port' arg to rpc.nfsd plus more.
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:22:38 -0500
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Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Steve Dickson:
> 
>>    -N  or  --no-nfs-version vers
>>        This option can be used to request that rpc.nfsd does not  offer
>>        certain  versions of NFS. The current version of rpc.nfsd can
>>        support both NFS version 2,3 and the newer version 4.
> 
> 
> Thanks very much for the patches, but would you please add on support
> for the '-V' flag specifying the versions that should be allowed?
Well since everything is on by default, I figured all that
was needed was a way to turn things off, but it would
be a non-issue to add.

> 
> 
>>    -T  or  --no-tcp
>>        Disable rpc.nfsd from accepting TCP connections from clients.
>>
>>    -U  or  --no-udp
>>        Disable rpc.nfsd from accepting UDP connections from clients.
> 
> 
> And could you please document when (if ever) these options would be
> useful to an end user?
I was thinking servers behind firewalls might want to
explicitly define one protocol or the other, just
to keep things simple and I know other servers have
these options.


steved.


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