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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:32:11 -0500
From:      "Eric L. Anderson" <anderson@more.net>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Max NFS mounts for a FreeBSD client?
Message-ID:  <20070802163211.GI27098@more.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070721202327.T83919@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20070720145932.GP6053@more.net> <20070720180546.X39675@fledge.watson.org> <20070721104525.44603382@localhost> <20070721040009.GB21336@more.net> <20070721202327.T83919@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:24:09PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Eric L. Anderson wrote:
> 
> >I can not change lowfirst to any higher amount. I did change lowlast from 
> >600 to 1 and now I can mount more than 1000 NFS mounts. This is great but 
> >what kind of side effects am I introducing by making this change?
> 
> The risk, btw, is that those reserved ports may no longer be available for 
> other use, as they may collide with other services you might want to have, 
> especially if those services want to bind INADDR_ANY.

I had a look at the manpage for mount_nfs and the default is to use a
reserved socket port number. There is also the option to not use a
reserved socket port number ("-N") and that has taken care of our
problem.

-- 
Eric L. Anderson
anderson@more.net



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