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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:36:18 +0000
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Who's Broken: Sun or FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19980417113618.00752b2c@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>

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At 12:54 16.04.98 -0400, 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".

Seems as you aliased one IP. Which one is the alias ?

>
>If I mount with:
>	mount xxx-server:/home /mnt
>It works just fine.When I try to mount with:
>	mount server:/home /mnt
>It hangs forever.
>
>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.

As you can see. 192.168.1.1 gets the request, 192.168.2.1 responds on the
request. So again, Which one is the alias ?

Malte Lance
malte@webmore.com


>
>It looks like the sun is replying using the wrong interface ip address
>and freebsd is ignoring it.
>
>Who is wrong?  (I think Sun) How do I get it fixed?  How do I get
>freebsd to accept the bad data?  Hummingbird NFS on the NT PCs here
>works just fine with bad responses.
>
>Using the "xxx-server" name is not a good option.  I am trying to use amd
>and it can't differentiate when someone types "ls /h/server/home/me".
>
>-- 
>Gary Algier, WB2FWZ       gary.algier@dgms.com              +1 609 608 2758
>DGM&S Telecom, 1025 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054     Fax:+1 609 866 8850
>        Paul Petzoldt on the renaming of Mount Washington:
>"I Call it the New England Booby Trap.  We see Ph.D.'s from private schools
>taking kids up there in shorts.  People die like flies up there!"
>
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