From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFS Client  port
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:47:50 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 18:31 -0800, mehta kiran wrote:
> Hi,
>     Any specific reason to make NFS Client connect on 
>     the same port or is it to make it simialr
> to/follow 
>     Solaris implementation where NFS Client connects
> with
>     same port?

Most NFSv2/v3 server implementations expect that if the client wants to
resend an RPC request, then it will use the same port as the original
request. If not, replaying something like a mkdir request would result
in the server returning the equivalent of the error EEXIST.

Cheers,
  Trond



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