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From: christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas)
Subject: Re: NFS-problem (Bug?)
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 18:00:47 GMT
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In article <52320q$clk@news.belwue.de> jscharrl@ba-stuttgart.de writes:
>Hi,
>
>we have to following constellation in our LAN:
>* the NetBSD-machine (i386) is on subnet 12 which is connected to subnet 11
>* a HPUX-server is both on subnet 11 and on subnet 1 - its default
>  route goes to subnet 1
>
>so when I try to mount a directory from the HPUX-server on the
>NetBSD-machine via NFS, the request goes to the interface on subnet 11
>of the server while the reply comes from the interface on subnet 1 ->
>the NetBSD-machine doesn't get a correct answer and gets confused
>(i.e. nearly all NFS-requests hang). Other network services like ping
>or telnet work fine. Everything is ok when we tell the server to use
>subnet 11 to reach subnet 12.
>
>Shouldn't the NetBSD-machine recognise the packets from the other
>interface?
>

Use the -c flag to the mount, or noconn on amd.

christos