Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPCtraffic

[Trond Myklebust]

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.

Cheers,
  Trond
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