Re: PATCH: Support binding to a local IPv4 address when mounting a server.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Chuck Lever wrote:
>
> Would lockd also need to have this information too (passed in via 
> nlmclnt_inet)?
I found an fs/lockd directory, but cannot find 'nlmclnt_inet' anywhere 
in the kernel or nfs-utils.

>
> Would we also want kernel rpcbind requests to be sensitive to the 
> passed-in bind address?

It seems from searching net/sunrpc dir that kernel_bind is called 
appropriately which should
bind the a local addr if correct information is passed in, at least.   
This must be working
(assuming NFS calls this code eventually) since I *am* getting at least 
most of the NFS traffic
correctly bound to the specified bindaddr.

I wouldn't be surprised if the binaddr isn't being configured in the 
lockd properly,
but I'm not yet sure of how to get that information to lockd since I 
just started looking
at that code...

Thanks,
Ben

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