The random port usage of NFS makes it difficult to use with NAT/firewalls. The common workaround is to configure statd, mountd, lockd, and quotad to static ports. Since there isn't any standard (IANA registered) port assignments this breaks on many networks that use dynamic or different static ports. This makes it difficult to use the "standard" network file sharing protocol with mobile devices which often use firewalls. Saned, Samba (netbios), and FTP all have conntrack modules to handle dynamic port usage. Has there been any attempt to write one for NFS? I filed a bug with Ubuntu about it (#688446), mostly for psychological benefit as it's probably something they're not going to get involved with. -- 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
