NFS ports?
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Tue Jun 16 11:23:15 UTC 2009
Aldo Foot wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>> It appears to me that NFS requires ports 111 and 2049, both of which
>> I have opened in the firewall via firestarter. But that doesn't
>> seem to be enough, after struggling to make a connection it also
>> needed some high numbered ports, right now, 43509, but that changes
>> from time to time. I have to keep checking the firestarter events
>> log on both the server and client to see what needs to be opened. I
>> usually block by defaullt and open only the ports needed. Perhaps
>> that wont work with NFS?
>>
>> If anyone can offer some suggestion I would appreciate it.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> Read the source[1] and eSearch for "nfs static ports". You'll
> get your answer by the time you're done reading.
>
> [1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s2-sysconfig-nfs.html
>
> The key file is /etc/sysconfig/nfs.
>
> ~af
>
>
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Use nfs4? One of the features is that ports don't move around. In
fact you only need one port, 2049/tcp.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-nfsv4.html
Fedora works just fine with only nfs4 enabled and has for the last
couple of releases.
-wolfgang
Thanks to both of you for some very good help. The man page contains a lot of information and although it referred to nfs4, etc. I could not make the connection with the symptoms I saw.
Thanks for the help.
Bob
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