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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:13:19 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@transit.hanse.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any of these kernel opts break RPC?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407180707.14725A-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980408025708.3400E-100000@transit.hanse.de>

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> > When I have these opts in my config files, RPC services can not bind.
> > Kernel is 2.2.6-STABLE from 0404. Removing these lines fixed RPC.
> > 
> > options         "MD5"                   # Encryption
> > options         DDB                     # Debugger
> > options         PERFMON                 # Performance Monitor
> > options         IPFIREWALL              # For bpfilter

> Look at ipfw(8), /etc/rc.local and /etc/rc.firewall on how to use this IP 
> packet filtering facility properly.
> 
> > This machine is NIS master, so I did not have time to have it down long
> > enought to reboot 4 times :(.
> 
> The most probable cause for your problems is that you haven't set up any 
> firewall rules, so communication through the loopback interface fails, or 
> at least connections to your NIS server are dropped.

I had firewall type set to "open" in /etc/rc.conf. I will have to reboot
to get the precise error. I have MAX_USERS=256; would that make MAX_OPEN
grow over 256? If so, that would break RPC...

Thanks for the response,
Kevin



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