jeffrey- > > We've had complaints about ports and protocols being > blocked for the > > rpc_ping function. > > > > Any thoughts on how to work around that? > > My patch should address this somewhat -- it looks for the > 'tcp' and 'nfsvers=' mount options and does the RPC ping > according to those. So if the ping doesn't work due to > blocked ports, then the mount won't work either.
if the mount option default settings change (say it was 'udp' in earlier releases, and is now 'tcp') the meaning of a missing option on the mount command line is different. so looking at the mount options is a completely unreliable way to determine which transport protocol is in use... _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
