> Looks like the NetApp uses /etc/services to define what the port > should be on? .. > nlockmgr 4045/tcp # NLM > nlockmgr 4045/udp > mountd 4046/tcp # NFS mountd protocol > mountd 4046/udp > status 4047/tcp > status 4047/udp > pcnfsd 4048/tcp # PCNFS protocol > pcnfsd 4048/udp > rquotad 4049/udp ..
Indeed it does. I would be willing to bet that they decided on this approach for their Sun RPC implementation so that it was easier for people to use their systems with firewalls. The behaviour you seen here is not common across all NFS file servers. Darren
