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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who's Broken: Sun or FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416140242.7029d-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <353637BF.DF7FA19E@dgms.com>

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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gary Algier wrote:

> I have FreeBSD 2.2.6 running on my desktop machine here at work.  It is
> on one of the two subnets and I am trying to nfs mount our file server
> and it hangs forever.  (FreeBSD can't even reboot.  It hangs right after
> syncing the disks.)  I ran tcpdump & tcpshow and found out that someone
> is messed up: either Sun or FreeBSD.
> 
> A few (faked to protect the guilty) details:
>     Client:
> 	Hostname:	client
> 	OS:		FreeBSD 2.2.6
> 	IP1:		192.168.2.10 (client)
>     Server:
> 	Hostame:	server
> 	IP1:		192.168.1.1 (server)
> 	IP2:		192.168.2.1 (xxx-server)
> 	Yes, the server is also configured to forward.  It is our "router".

Okay, check.

> 
> If I mount with:
> 	mount xxx-server:/home /mnt
> It works just fine.

That's expected; it's on the same subnet.

> When I try to mount with:
> 	mount server:/home /mnt
> It hangs forever.

That sounds like routing.

> By looking at the packets I can see the following conversation:
> 	Source ip/port		Dest ip/port
> 	192.168.2.10/971	192.168.1.1/111 	portmapper request
> 	192.168.2.1/111		192.168.2.10/971	portmapper reply
> This goes on forever.

This is taken from what host?  Try running tcpdump on the FreeBSD machine.  

FreeBSD may be getting confused since it's expecting a reply from the same
IP it sent to.  I'd have to check this tho.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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