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From: Steve Dickson <steved@4Dicksons.org>
To: Erik Enge <eenge@prium.net>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: How does lockd work when specifying mountd port.
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:23:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2DC86F.2070508@4Dicksons.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k7gyzi6i.fsf@prium.net>

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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-21 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-14 19:38 How does lockd work when specifying mountd port Erik Enge
     [not found] ` <3E2CB6DF.8050409@4Dicksons.org>
     [not found]   ` <87k7gyzi6i.fsf@prium.net>
2003-01-21 22:23     ` Steve Dickson [this message]

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