>Am 13.03.2005 um 16:37 Uhr -0500 schrieb Olmsted, Brian: >>My understanding is that the NetApp Filer DataOnTap OS is based on >>NetBSD if that helps with understanding the TCP/IP stack. That is, >>after reading through these threads about NFS (before posting >>originally) I believe someone posted saying that NetBSD has static port >>assignments for the service made available/ Hence, it would be easier >>to use in a data centre where you may wish to filter on a host, firewall >>or perhaps the NetApp filtering itself (using IP Filter perhaps behind >>the scenes? ;) > >AFAIK, NetBSD's rpcbind keeps port assignments of the services it >manages constant during machine runtime. Reboot the machine, and you >are likely to get different assignments - rpcbind does not store any >persistent information on that. >
rpcbind does not control the port assignments. Casper
