On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:10:01PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > [...] > I'm still mystified as to what is going on here... There is some network traffic I don't understand but it might be relevant. Client machine: 172.17.1.49 server hardware: 172.17.2.241 The server has an additional IP addres for every exported mount point. The one which is mounted and blocked on the client doesn't show up in traffic below. The server itself serves NIS too but the client is bound to a different physical machine for this. The following was captured (added some tshark -V output to clarify a bit): Frame Time Data 1 0.000000 172.17.1.49 -> 172.17.255.255 Portmap V2 CALLIT Call -------------------------------------------------------------------- User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 38242 (38242), Dst Port: sunrpc (111) Remote Procedure Call, Type:Call XID:0x42d68775 Program: Portmap (100000) Program Version: 2 Procedure: CALLIT (5) Credentials Flavor: AUTH_UNIX (1) Length: 40 Verifier Flavor: AUTH_NULL (0) Length: 0 Portmap DOMAIN_NONACK call [Program Version: 2] [V2 Procedure: CALLIT (5)] Program: YPSERV (100004) Version: 2 Procedure: DOMAIN_NONACK (2) Argument length: 8 Domain: TSKU length: 4 contents: TSKU 2 0.000544 172.17.2.241 -> 172.17.1.49 UDP Source port: rda Destination port: 38242 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: rda (630), Dst Port: 38242 (38242) Data (36 bytes) // no clue from tshark 0000 42 d6 87 75 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 B..u............ 0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 5b 00 00 00 04 ...........[.... 0020 00 00 00 01 .... 3 0.000740 172.17.1.49 -> 172.17.2.241 ICMP Destination unreachable (Port unreachable) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Control Message Protocol Type: 3 (Destination unreachable) Code: 3 (Port unreachable) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: rda (630), Dst Port: 38242 (38242) 4 5.016300 Dell_e7:1f:f0 -> Dell_38:31:b8 ARP Who has 172.17.1.49? Tell 172.17.2.241 5 5.016443 Dell_38:31:b8 -> Dell_e7:1f:f0 ARP 172.17.1.49 is at 00:14:22:38:31:b8 6 20.001647 172.17.1.49 -> 172.17.255.255 Portmap V2 CALLIT Call 7 20.002132 172.17.2.241 -> 172.17.1.49 UDP Source port: rda Destination port: 49408 8 20.002375 172.17.1.49 -> 172.17.2.241 ICMP Destination unreachable (Port unreachable) 9 25.013384 Dell_38:31:b8 -> Dell_e7:1f:f0 ARP Who has 172.17.2.241? Tell 172.17.1.49 10 25.013397 Dell_e7:1f:f0 -> Dell_38:31:b8 ARP 172.17.2.241 is at 00:18:8b:e7:1f:f0 11 40.003525 172.17.1.49 -> 172.17.255.255 Portmap V2 CALLIT Call 12 40.004003 172.17.2.241 -> 172.17.1.49 UDP Source port: rda Destination port: 51755 13 40.004249 172.17.1.49 -> 172.17.2.241 ICMP Destination unreachable (Port unreachable) The UDP port seems random and doesn't show up in rpcinfo -p for client or server. What bothers me is the ICMP Destination unreachable. It applies to a port (code=3) but it might have some adverse effect on other traffic from the same hardware to the client. And I don't understand why the ICMP error occurs. But maybe this is all irrelevant. -- Frank -- 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