Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:28:40 -0800 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Can you specify a local IP or Interface to be used on a per NFS mount basis? |
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Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 18:21 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > > >>>NFS doesn't know anything about ip packet routing. That is a networking >>>issue. >> >>When a socket is created, you can optionally bind to local IP, interface and/or >>IP-Port. Somewhere, NFS is opening a socket I assume? So, is there a way to >>ask it to bind? > > > > As David said, the place to fix it is in xs_bindresvport(), but there is > no support for passing this sort of information through the current NFS > binary mount structure. You would have to hack that up yourself.
I can think of some horrible hacks to grab info out of a text file based on the mount point or some other available info...but if I actually attempted to do it right..would you consider the patch for kernel inclusion? Is it OK to modify the binary mount structure?
Ben
> > Cheers, > Trond >
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