Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!vector!egsner!mic!convex!convex.convex.com!thurlow From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: NFS over wide-area networks? Keywords: NFS Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 02:41:37 GMT References: <6989@suns4.cel.co.uk> <1056@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@convex.com Lines: 18 In <1056@inews.intel.com> echan@cad017.intel.com (Eldon Chan ~ ) writes: >Since NFS traffic doesn't use the same UDP port all the time. I am sure >someone must has done this before. >One straight forward solution is to allow all UDP traffic and then >disable the port that I don't like (1-1023 except 111). Huh? NFS on all systems I've looked at always hard-code the server port number of the server to 2049. That's convention, and not blessed by an entry in /etc/services, but I'd bet on it being reliable. Do you know of a system which does have their NFS server at port 2049? Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@convex.com or thurlow%convex.com@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "This opinion was the only one available; I got here kind of late." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com