From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Help with UDP NFS firewall rules
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:06:47 -0400
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On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:51 +0100, Ian Grant wrote:
> Dear NFS people,
> 
> I am trying to access NFS services running on a 2.4.20 kernel, using UDP. The client is running SUSE 9.3 with kernel 2.6.11.4-21.12 and iptables acting as a firewall.
> 
> The problem is that the nfsd on the server sends UDP replies to random ports <1024 on the client. Is there a way to fix the port chosen on the client end so that I can make a hole in the firewall for it?
> 
> Ian Grant

That is unfortunately not possible at this time. Is there any reason why
you can't use TCP?

Cheers,
  Trond


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