Subject: Re: NFS and reserved ports
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@aros.net>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/11/1998 00:20:57
On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 02:58:52PM -0700, Michael K. Sanders wrote:
> Since this has come up a few times, people are obviously using 1.3
> servers with 1.2.x clients.  Since using -noresvport decreases the
> security of the system, has anyone done a patch for 1.2.x to use
> reserved ports so that security does not have to be decreased to allow
> mixing of 1.2.x clients and 1.3 servers?

You don't need to decrease the security of the 1.3 server, you just need
to increase the security of the 1.2.x client :-) Just use the -P
option to mount_nfs on the client.

- Frank