For anyone who cares, I am posting a tcpdump capture of a sample session. This is where I run the command 'mount -t nfs lansvr:/cdrom /mnt' in one xterm, and run 'tcpdump -qN > tcpdump.nfs' in another. Heres the output. Perhaps someone can explain some of it to me. Seems to be an awful lot of chatter going on that doesn't relate to the mount request, but I captured it several times, and got exactly the same results every time, so I would presume that it's all *supposed* to be there somehow ;) 22:49:57.535478 demandred.tscchat > lansvr.domain: udp 36 (DF) 22:49:57.535883 lansvr.domain > demandred.tscchat: udp 82 (DF) 22:49:57.540452 demandred.agentview > lansvr.domain: udp 43 (DF) 22:49:57.540790 lansvr.domain > demandred.agentview: udp 105 (DF) 22:49:57.542089 demandred.agentview > lansvr.domain: udp 42 (DF) 22:49:57.542411 lansvr.domain > demandred.agentview: udp 114 (DF) 22:49:57.543860 demandred.896 > lansvr.sunrpc: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.544208 lansvr.sunrpc > demandred.896: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.544326 demandred.896 > lansvr.sunrpc: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.544926 demandred.896 > lansvr.sunrpc: tcp 44 (DF) 22:49:57.545137 lansvr.sunrpc > demandred.896: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.545761 lansvr.sunrpc > demandred.896: tcp 332 (DF) 22:49:57.545856 demandred.896 > lansvr.sunrpc: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.546350 demandred.896 > lansvr.sunrpc: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.546595 lansvr.sunrpc > demandred.896: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.546697 demandred.896 > lansvr.sunrpc: tcp 0 (DF) 22:49:57.547469 demandred.897 > lansvr.1024: udp 112 (DF) 22:50:00.552779 demandred.897 > lansvr.1024: udp 112 (DF) 22:50:03.562758 demandred.897 > lansvr.1024: udp 112 (DF) 22:50:06.572772 demandred.897 > lansvr.1024: udp 112 (DF) 22:50:09.582759 demandred.897 > lansvr.1024: udp 112 (DF) 22:50:12.592769 demandred.897 > lansvr.1024: udp 112 (DF) 22:50:15.602758 demandred.897 > lansvr.1024: udp 112 (DF) After which the RPC request times out (see original post for exact command/results) TIA, Monte _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com