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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:07:30 +0000
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/22594: NFS can't handle asymmetric server routing 
Message-ID:   <200303112307.aa08677@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:50:07 PST." <200303112250.h2BMo7IJ056143@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200303112250.h2BMo7IJ056143@freefall.freebsd.org>, Eric Anderson wr
ites:
> This fix works for the NFS server side, but from the client side, there 
> is no way (that I know of) that allows you to allow this behavior.  In 
> other words, if I have a Solaris NFS server (that incorrectly responds 
> on a different interface with the wrong source address), my FreeBSD NFS 
> client hangs.  I have submitted a PR for this long ago, and was told 
> "too bad - they didn't follow the specs", but the reality is that the 
> FreeBSD mount command (and amd for that matter) should have a bypass to 
> say "I don't care if it comes back from a different source address, take 
> it anyway" - so it will work.  I know it is a security risk, but I 
> should be able to enable that if I'd like.
> 
> This PR should be re-opened.

The "-c" option to mount_nfs should do what you want - does this
work for you? I'm not sure if there's a way to do this for amd,
though on a recent (less than 6 weeks old) -STABLE you cound try
setting the sysctl variable `vfs.nfs.nfs_ip_paranoia' to 0.

Ian

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