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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 1996 11:04:02 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        bwithrow@baynetworks.com (Robert Withrow)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sun NFS interop problem
Message-ID:  <199608301804.LAA00819@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608301548.LAA10680@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Aug 30, 96 11:48:57 am

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> I wrote about this a while ago, but I still (2.1.5) have the problem
> interoping with sun NFS where the FreeBSD machine sends a message
> to one sun machine port and gets a reply from another port on the
> sun machine and drops it.

[ ... ]

> So, can someone tell me where this check is in the FreeBSD code,
> so I can try to disable it?

Look in the anti-spoofing code.  The reason it's there is to prevent
someone from outside taking over a local NFS connection and raping your
file system.  The Sun looks like two machines: the valid machine, and
a spoofer trying to hack NFS.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.



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