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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:55:28 +0400
From:      Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
To:        "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Subject:   Re: Firewalling NFS
Message-ID:  <20070615175528.GL3779@void.codelabs.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4672D09B.9030100@incunabulum.net>
References:  <20070615072734.GC8093@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20070615105950.GH3779@void.codelabs.ru> <4672D09B.9030100@incunabulum.net>

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Bruce, good day.

Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:47:07PM +0100, Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> I added the -p switch to mountd(8) a few years ago, as I needed to run a 
> read-only NFS server exposed to the outside world; to firewall it I needed a 
> deterministic RPC port number, which is what -p gives you. Otherwise you have 
> to rely on the TCP wrapper support built into rpcbind(8). The rpc.lockd and 
> rpc.statd daemons were recently changed to incorporate this switch too, 
> although I don't think it has been backported to the 6-STABLE branch yet.

OK, thanks for the explanations.

So, Jeremie, you will need to wait for merge of the change or backport
it manually.
-- 
Eygene



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