NFS 4 client callback port

[Guillaume Rousse]

J. Bruce Fields a écrit :
>>  From reading 
>> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/NFSv4/NFSv4-no-rpcsec.html#notes, In 
>> understand than callback requires a client port to be accessible from a 
>> server-initiated connection.
> 
> Yes.  Note, though, that if the callback doesn't work, that's not a
> fatal problem.
Sure, but it is supposed to enhance perfs. And there is also this issue 
  in 2.6.24.4:
https://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2008-April/008440.html

Given than we can change our firewall settings much easier than have 
patches included in regular distribution kernels, I'd rather make it work :)

>> I found nowhere which port it is exactly 
>> (2049 again ?)
> 
> It's not a fixed port.
OK, but I think there is some kind of range for it ? Or at least a fixed 
source port ?


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