Subject: Re: mount_nfs giving "Bad address" error return
To: Alex A Sergejew <alex@cortex.mhri.edu.au>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.ibp.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 03/25/1997 14:52:12
On Mar 25, Alex A Sergejew wrote
> I'm sure I'm going to be told I've overlooked something stupidly obvious,
> but I just can't see it after a day of staring at it.
> 
> Running NetBSD-current on Intel boxen, and nfs mounts to several hosts
> around here (eg Irix, Digital Unix, BSDI, and Ultrix) used to work fine.
> 
> Now, however, whenever I try nfs mounting from the NetBSD boxen, eg
> 	mount -t nfs -o nfsv2 host:/remote/dir /nfs/local/dir
> I'm always getting an error return
> 	nfs: /nfs/local/dir: Bad address
> [...]

Did you try mount -t nfs -o nfsv2,-P host:/remote/dir /nfs/local/dir ?
The -P options tells the kernel to use a reserved port number for nfs requests.

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Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
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