On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:35:57AM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Is there any alternative to this ?
NFS is a pain. In theory, you need a packet filter which listens in on the portmaper exchange and on the fly opens and closes the udp ports actually being used. I practice, no (unless you implement the theory yourself).
If there is another way afterall, please let me know as well...
I think there was a way to bind the daemons to some fixed, previously known, port. then you can open those, and don't have to supply a range. damn. where are my notes on that ... AFAICR, it was option -p for the listening port of rpc.nfsd, rpc.mountd, rpc.statd, and -o for outgoing port of statd. not sure about lockd. and you need a port=### (or mountport=###) option for mount. hope that is enough to find the needed info Lars