On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:56:56 -0400 Jim Rees <rees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Valentijn Sessink wrote: > > Hello list, > > I found a lot of information on the subject NFS server, ipv6 + krb5, but > not anything conclusive. So I tried it out; I got IPv6 + > NFS4 to work, but only with sec=sys. > > When using sec=krb5, there seemed to be errors in gssd communication. > (Ubuntu 10.04 with rpcbind instead of portmap; with nfs-utils-1.2.3 from > nfs.sf.net, and with a 2.6.35-020635rc1-generic kernel package). > > Is this correct, i.e. svcgssd still needs to be adapted to IPv6? Or > should NFS-server/IPv6/Kerberos on Linux just work, i.e. should I > re-check my configuration? > > I don't know the specific answer to your question, but ipv6 support is still > a work in progress, and I'm actually a bit surprised it works out of the box > even with sec=sys. > > You may want to try the very latest ipv6 version of nfs-utils, which may > have some patches that have not yet been merged upstream. You can get it > from git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/cel/nfs-utils.git . The usual > warnings apply, this is experimental code, you could lose data, it may not > work with your 2.6.35 kernel, and if you find bugs you can't necessarily get > anyone to help you. As of nfs-utils-1.2.3, IPv6 server-side support should be "complete" (modulo bugs, of course). -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
