Re: [PATCH 00/11] NFS: Support binding to source address

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Hi Ben-

On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Ben Greear wrote:

> On 06/23/2011 07:59 AM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:36 PM, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>> From: Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> This lets one specify the source IP address for
>>> sockets, allowing users to leverage routing rules
>>> on multi-homed systems.
>> 
>> Do you need changes to send NLM requests from the right source address?
> 
> Not for my testing so far...but maybe I'm not utilizing whatever NLM
> does.  What sort of things would require/use it?

File locking.  NLM support should be a requirement for a complete implementation of srcaddr=, IMO.

--
Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com



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