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From: ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD-0.1 - NFS - do requests originate from privileged ports
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Date: 18 Jul 92 12:27:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: merlin@neuro.usc.edu's message of 17 Jul 92 04:28:45 GMT

The correct answer is no/yes (at least if 0.1 didn't change anything
in this regard from the original Net2 tape).

NFS requests do not use priviledged ports.

Mount requests do use priviledged ports.

For the NFS part you need something like James' patch (though
I did not test it yet).
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