Re: is NetBSD-4.x NFS Server locking support broken?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:57:37PM -0400, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
> 
> On 20-Sep-08, at 8:47 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >
> >You says your OS X box is behind a NAT; I wonder is the NAT is  
> >preventing
> >the server to talk to the client's rpcbind or statd here.
> 
> I don't think basic RPC is a problem through the NAT.  Note that NFS  
> over UDP does work fine through the NAT too, and IIRC all of NFS is  
> RPC too.

Your OS X client is initiating the RPC request to your NetBSD server;
this works. But the NetBSD server has to issue RPC requests to your
OS X client (to contact statd), and I can't see how this one could
work if there's a NAT gateway between the server and the client.

> 
> 
> >Maybe using RPC over TCP for lockd/statd could help in this case.
> 
> How would one do that?  Especially since in this case the program  
> making the requests is effectively the OSX kernel....  (and wouldn't  
> using NFS over TCP, as I'm doing, do all RCP over TCP?)

I'm not sure, as the lock requests are independant from NFS. 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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