Re: Status of mount.nfs

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Chuck Lever wrote:
> I was looking at this yesterday.  The stock timeout for TCP connects on 
> Linux is 75 seconds.  The version of getport() used in the mount command 
> might control the TCP connect timeout by using a non-blocking connect() 
> with a select().  The select() then times out if the connection doesn't 
> complete.
> 
> But I'm wondering if we really want to continue using TCP for GETPORT 
> calls.  Solaris mount appears to use only UDP for GETPORT, for example.
As as long as the GETPORTs don't use privilege ports I don't think its
a problem... plus I don't think one size fixes all.. meaning due to
different firewalls requirements both udp and tcp GETPORTS will be
needed... imho...

steved.

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