NFS through firewall

[Robert Rati <Robert.Rati@motorola.com>]

I am trying to provide a directory to the outside world through a 
firewall via NFS.  I can mount the directory from another system, but 
when I try to list the contents of the directory the firewall blocks the 
communication.  I see that the host system is attempting to send data on 
port 65535 using the UDP protocol.  I have the following firewall rule 
that SHOULD match it, but isn't:

/sbin/ipchains -A output -j ACCEPT -i eth0 -p udp --source-port 61000:65535

I have set the local port range to be 61000-65535.  My question is, why 
is NFS choosing port 65535 to transfer data?  Is it using the local port 
range?  I tried changing the port range and restarting the NFS daemons, 
but it still tried to use port 65535.

I know this isn't necessarily a firewall expert group, but have there 
been any issues with ipchains/2.2 kernels blocking NFS traffic on port 
65535?

Rob



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