Subject: Re: NFS hangs on Mac port of NetBSD 1.2
To: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/09/1996 09:03:43
	Worth submitting a pr? :)

> >      -c      For UDP mount points, do not do a connect(2).  This must be used
> >              for servers that do not reply to requests from the standard NFS
> >              port number 2049.
> 
> > I can't believe that I'd need this with a Solaris NFS server, which I
> > know damn well listens on port 2049.
> 
> Well, (a) that doesn't mean it _replies_ from port 2049, and (b) the
> manpage description, while true, is incomplete: -c must be used when
> mounting servers that don't reply from the <addr,port> address the
> request is sent to.  If the server has two IP addresses and you send
> packets to one and get replies from the other, you will need -c.  (This
> is, unfortunately, relatively common behavior for multi-homed machines
> when you mount by an address other than the one the server routes
> packets to you out via.)
>