Steve Dickson wrote: Could this possibly be handled by some type of user-level connection manager that would be able to deal with the changing of a server's IP address? This shouldn't be necessary. The nfs client already deals successfully with the case where a tcp connection is closed unexpectedly. All that's needed is to make sure the connection closes when the client moves. If the network layer doesn't do this already, it should. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html