From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nfs-utils: add IPv6 support to nfsd Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:42:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4A1181EE.7080401@RedHat.com> References: <1242064697-32520-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <1242064697-32520-4-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <00A26259-D5D8-4E1C-91F4-6AB5CE194870@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Jeff Layton , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35501 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751101AbZERPpi (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 11:45:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <00A26259-D5D8-4E1C-91F4-6AB5CE194870@oracle.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chuck Lever wrote: > On May 11, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: >> Add 2 new options to rpc.nfsd -- -4 and -6. -4 makes it an IPv4-only >> server, and -6 makes it IPv6-only. Restructure the -H option so that >> if the address appears to be or resolves to an IPv4 address, that >> IPv6 is disabled. Ditto if it resolves to an IPv6 address. > > For rpc.statd, I'm following Olaf's suggestion to use /etc/netconfig to > decide what transports to use for listeners. Basically, rpc.statd > attempts to start listeners for all visible netids (marked with 'v') in > /etc/netconfig. This is how Solaris works, as I understand it. I'm > planning to take this course for rpc.mountd as well. > > Maybe rpc.nfsd should follow suit? I would have to agree... Jeff, what do you think? steved.