From: mac@mercury.Harris-ATD.com (Mike McDonald) Subject: Re: NFS Problem Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 22:28:59 GMT
In article <SWEN.93Apr13133007@blitz.uni-paderborn.de>, swen@uni-paderborn.de (Swen Thuemmler) writes:
|> >>>>> About NFS Problem, Mike McDonald said:
|>
|> Mike> I have Linux (.99pl6) up and running on a 486. I finally got the
|> Mike> networking working. (Thanks Don!) Now my problem, I can nfs
|> Mike> mount only one of our file servers. The other two always hang
|> Mike> with NFS server Foo not responding. PC-NFS is able to mount all
|> Mike> three so I don't think it's a config error on the server side.
|>
|> I've had the same problem with some of our Suns. It turned out, that
|> these Suns had more than one network-interface (and different names
|> for the interfaces). It seems that linux is only able to mount from
|> the first interface on the way to the specified host. So if machine
|> foo is in Subnet A, machine bar in subnet B and machine foobar on both
|> (gateway) with names foobar-a for interface on subnet A and foobar-b
|> for interface on subnet B, machine foo can mount foobar-a, but not
|> foobar-b and machine bar can mount foobar-b but not foobar-a
|>
|> foo bar
|> | |
|> A-------+--------+- B-+---------+------------
|> | |
|> foobar-a foobar-b
|> ^ == ^
|>
|> foo can mount from bar and the other way round.
|> The same problem existed (I believe) with PC-NFS 3.0, but not with
|> 4.0.
|>
|> Greetings, Swen
|>
|>
|> --
|> Swen Thümmler * "Wenn im Namen eines Ideals Menschen Schurkereien
|> An der kleinen Mauer 3 * zugefügt werden müssen, so ist dieses Ideal
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|> <swen@uni-paderborn.de> * -- A. und B. Strugatzki
My problem is just the opposite of yours, I can mount the far side of the
farthest machine. I can't mount the closest side of the closest machine.
Mike McDonald Advanced Technology Dept.
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