I put the patches in knfsd 1.5. I made some small modifications.
>
> With these patches, knfsd no longer requires xtab or rmtab to maintain state
> across shutdown/startup - it will automatically add client entries to the
> kernel's table when they actually start to make NFS requests.
>
> I have yet to fix up exportfs, and to implement expiry of the negative entries
> (and of positive ones for that matter), but I've got it to the state where it
> no longer requires xtab or rmtab to work reliably, and it'll automatically
> reregister clients which ought to be authenticated, but aren't in the kernel's
> client list.
>
> This is work in progress, but I'm posting it for comments before I go and round
> up the loose ends. The patches are against knfsd-1.4.7, and 2.2.12 with the
> relevant patches included.
>
> Note the patch to net/sunrpc/svc.c, which allows RPC in from any host - I'd
> like a better way of doing that, if possible, without adding a separate
> netlink callback in the RPC layer. Is there a way that the nfsd service can
> register itself as being promiscuous?
>
It is a problem since some amd/autofs implementations depend
on it. Why do you have to disable it?
Thanks.
H.J.
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