Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPC traffic | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:01:17 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:58 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Interestingly, Linux is not the only OS that has been hit by this > >problem: > > > > http://blogs.sun.com/shepler/entry/port_623_or_the_mount > > There is more to it. On a machine I had set up a second, > experimental, apache on port 880. And it randomly failed to start on > a boot because mountd had taken the port first. > Man, this RPC stuff should go and use fixed ports.
man 8 mountd and check out the '-p' option. statd has a similar one. Even the in-kernel lockd daemon's can be set to listen to fixed ports.
So there really shouldn't be any problems nailing down your RPC ports.
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