Subject: Re: NFS hangs on Mac port of NetBSD 1.2
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/09/1996 16:15:36
In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.961009090315.29052X-100000@tachyon.mono.org> david@mono.org (David Brownlee) writes:
>	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.)

Send a PR and I'll deal with this. It is on my list of things to fix anyway...

christos