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From: imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
Subject: Re: unmountall .. from 127.0.0.1 ??
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Organization: Assorted C Software, Sydney
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 11:06:40 GMT
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Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) writes:

: In article <D01wJ4.MBx@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>,
: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> wrote:
: >When shutting down my test FreeBSD 2.0 box, I receive an error on my ISC box
: >saying "umountall from 127.0.0.1 not from privileged port (xxxx)" or

: Umm, 127.0.0.1 is the localhost address.  This address should be the
: machine that you are on, but on the 'localhost' device which is used for
: loopback and such.

Yup .. which is why I don't believe that it should appear on this box at
all.

: So, your ISC machine should have 127.0.0.1 set to itself and your FreeBSD
: machine should have 127.0.0.1 set to itself (check out /etc/netstart)

True, they both do.

: Basically, your ISC machine sounds like it's mis-configured and/or
: you're using a reserved address that shouldn't be used for generic
: networking.

Nope, std. setup .. NFS works just fine with everything else (three other
PCs on the same ether but running DOS). 

The problem seems to be the "I'm shutting down" announcement generated by
the FreeBSD box (sent out of the ed0 interface) to the system on which it
had drives mounted has the wrong 'from' address .. i.e. a possible bug in
FreeBSD 2.0 but which has no other serious effects other than an annoying
message anytime I shut it down.

This is apparently somewhere under vnode_pager_umount but I haven't had the
time to investigate any more deeply,

	michael