Re: Can you specify a local IP or Interface to be used on a per NFS mount basis?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:21 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
>>>NFS doesn't know anything about ip packet routing. That is a networking
>>>issue.
>>
>>When a socket is created, you can optionally bind to local IP, interface and/or
>>IP-Port.  Somewhere, NFS is opening a socket I assume?  So, is there a way to
>>ask it to bind?
> 
> 
> 
> As David said, the place to fix it is in xs_bindresvport(), but there is
> no support for passing this sort of information through the current NFS
> binary mount structure. You would have to hack that up yourself.

I can think of some horrible hacks to grab info out of a text file based
on the mount point or some other available info...but if I actually
attempted to do it right..would you consider the patch for kernel
inclusion?  Is it OK to modify the binary mount structure?

Ben

> 
> Cheers,
>   Trond
> 


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