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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Chris Pinnock wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:42:39PM +0000, Samuel Lellouche wrote:
> > The Linux client that "damages" the server's rpc capability, is a
> > Linux Slackware 7.0 w/ 2.2.13 Kernel (nfs loaded as module)...
>
> Ok. This is a "bad" kernel. You might want to upgrade that to at
> least 2.2.18 to get a better NFS system on that client (probably you
> want 2.2.19). You may need to upgrade mount as well.
>
> > I'm not surprised to see buggy Linux code, but i'm surprised to notice
> > that it
> > hangs a NetBSD rpc capabilities... (there might be a DOS attack risk).
>
> 1.5.1 is in BETA now and it is possible that these problems have been
> fixed. Are you able to upgrade easily? If so, could you and see if the
> problem persists with the 2.2.13 kernel as client? Either way, could you
> send a full list of commands that will hand the NetBSD server?

Getting a tcpdump of the packets between the two machine would be good too -
i.e. on the server:

tcpdump -i <network interface on the shared subnet with the client> -s 1500
- -nw nfs.problems.dump host <ip of the linux client>

e.g.:

tcpdump -i fxp0 -s 1500 -nw nfs.problems.dump host 10.0.0.42

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