NFSv4 without portmapper ? (resent)

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:22:15PM +0100, Gabriel Barazer wrote:
> I am testing the nfs utils (not patched for now) on a clean system (in
> fact it's a kind of linux from scratch). I want to write a bootscript
> designed to start _only_ the nfsv4 server or a nfsv4 client (without
> support for nfsv2/3). Since nfsv4 is designed to operate on only 1 TCP
> port, is the portmapper still required ?

I think the server will still try to register itself with the local
portmapper.  But you can run portmap with the "-i 127.0.0.1" option and
then it'll only accept local connections.

--b.