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From: Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: unix@fi.muni.cz
Subject: Re: mountd gives "illegal port"
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:12:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041027161256.GC4333@fi.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027124228.GJ4724@fi.muni.cz>

Jan Kasprzak wrote:
: I have discovered the following problem in Linux NFS: When you mount
: many filesystems from the same server, mountd sometimes refuses the
: request with "illegal port" message in syslog.

	Well, the mountd is probably OK, and it is the client who runs
out of privileged ports. netstat -ta on the client looks like this:

tcp        0      0 nfs-client.fi.muni.cz:880  nfs-server.fi.muni.c:sunrpc TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 nfs-client.fi.muni.cz:883  nfs-server.fi.muni.c:sunrpc TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 nfs-client.fi.muni.cz:884  nfs-server.fi.muni.c:sunrpc TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 nfs-client.fi.muni.cz:887  nfs-server.fi.muni.c:sunrpc TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 nfs-client.fi.muni.cz:888  nfs-server.fi.muni.c:sunrpc TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 nfs-client.fi.muni.cz:891  nfs-server.fi.muni.c:sunrpc TIME_WAIT
[...]    

	The solution might be to query portmap over UDP from the NFS client
instead of TCP. Or to query portmap from an unprivileged port (why we
send query to portmap from privileged port anyway?).

	 I have even tried echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout,
but this did not solve the problem - connections to server's portmap
remain for 60 seconds in FIN_WAIT.

-Yenya

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-27 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-27 12:42 mountd gives "illegal port" Jan Kasprzak
2004-10-27 15:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-10-27 16:23   ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-10-27 16:39     ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-10-27 16:40       ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-10-27 18:28     ` Peter Astrand
2004-10-27 16:12 ` Jan Kasprzak [this message]
2004-10-27 21:04 ` Michael Richardson
2004-10-27 21:13   ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-10-27 22:19     ` Michael Richardson

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