On 7/15/05, Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com> wrote:
> In article <Pine.NEB.4.63.0507152155160.1208@irina.net.flo>,
> Florian Stoehr  <netbsd@wolfnode.de> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >NetBSD's mountd picks a different port every time. As I'd like to allow
> >NFS mounts through firewall and our mountd cannot accept, say "-p <port>=
"
> >to force a specific port, I'm wondering whether someone already wrote a
> >patch for this? If so, please send it to me.
> >
> >If not I'll implement this for me. Other systems have this switch. Perha=
ps
> >there's some interest to have this committed into our mountd?
>=20
> Sure...

If this was done, would this mean we wouldn't need the portmapper as
well? I'm not 100% up to speed on how all this works, so that might be
a stupid question.

But it would be nice to specify a port on both ends and that way it
would be easier to firewall.