From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
Message-Id: <9509292228.AA04930@olympus>
Subject: Re: NFS mount problems with multi-homed NFS servers
To: tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Mr T Crummey)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 17:28:47 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <9029.9509252219@hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk> from "Mr T Crummey" at Sep 25, 95 11:19:35 pm
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have a problem where some FreeBSD clients (2.0.5) are unable to mount 
> (using amd) home directories from SUN servers (4.1.4) where the SUN server
> has 2 ethernet interfaces. Having used tcpdump to see what it going on, we 
> see that the FreeBSD machine makes a DNS request and is returned the 
> first interface address. The NFS lookup request is then sent to this address
> and the server replies. Unfortunately the server replies with the IP number
> of the nearest interface to the client, i.e. a different IP number. The
> FreeBSD machine then returns an ICMP port unreachable error and the mount
> request hangs. If we do a mount command, the mount will work if the IP
> address of the nearest interface is used.
> 
> Has anyone got a sane fix for this problem?

Yes.
mount_nfs -c
In otherwords, the noconn option.  I am not sure how to make this work with
/etc/fstab but this is where you want to start looking.

Boyd
> 
> Tom.
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