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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.cs.ucla.edu!taliesin.cs.ucla.edu!scottm From: scottm@taliesin.cs.ucla.edu (Scott Michel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: NFS struggles Date: 6 Mar 1997 06:51:19 GMT Organization: UCLA CS Dept Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5flph7$dmb@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: taliesin.cs.ucla.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36657 Currently I'm stuck with 2.1.6 for a variety of reasons, principally INRIA's IPv6 code (does not patch nicely with other kernel sources) and MIT's severly retarded 2.2-BETA-sometime-last-october doesn't support 3C959 cards (you criminals know who you are!) So there's no talking me out of this release just yet. In the meantime, I've set up an /etc/exports, turned the dials in /etc/sysconfig, and the NFS server doesn't work. -- But wait, there's more! -- If I hard mount the file system (called host:/misc) from an NFS client, the mount completes. When I do a 'ls -l' of the mount point, the client machine freezes, and a 'kill -9' won't get rid of the process: # mount host:/misc /mnt # completes OK # ls -l /mnt # Grip o' Death Command -- It's not just a floor wax, it's a dessert topping too! -- I took the liberty of doing a tcpdump on that interface to figure out what was going on. Apparently, there are a flood of ICMP messages in response to a non-existent UDP port, generally in the 1035 - 1088 range (but this isn't constant.) The sequence of events looks something like (names have been changed to protect the topology): 22:46:30.970045 client.bb > server.nfs: 120 getattr [|nfs] 22:46:30.970662 server-intf2.nfs > client.bb: reply ok 96 22:46:30.970718 client > server-intf2: icmp: client udp port 1039 unreachable Any suggestions? -scottm -- Scott Michel UCLA Computer Science Engineer, Dessert Toppings/Floor Waxes PhD Student Web MCache "AND STOP CALLING ME Scooter!" :-)