Re: How does lockd work when specifying mountd port.

[Steve Dickson <steved@4Dicksons.org>]

it turns out with RH8.0 (maybe earlier versions as well) you can
specify the port at insmod time by setting nlm_udpport or
nlm_tcpport

You can also sett nlm_grace_period and nlm_timeout as well...

Erik Enge wrote:

>Steve Dickson <SteveD@4Dicksons.org> writes:
>
>  
>
>>Lockd gets an enumerated port number and then registers
>>it with the portmapper. Then processes ask portmapper
>>(or rpcbind if your talking to Solaris) for the port. so you will
>>have to open up the port after lockd has started.  IMHO, This may not
>>be too wise to opening up all these ports,
>>you might want to think of using a VPN or SSH....
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks for your reply.
>
>Is there no way I can specify this port and have all processes use the
>same port and then open only that one through the firewall?
>
>I guess this means that I'm not using lockd at the moment.  Not
>devastating considering we have virtually only one NFS client.
>
>Erik.
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>



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