Is anyone else seeing this? This issue prevents NFS client mounting, since the NFS client wants to use source ports below 1024 Linux ubuntu 3.8.0-35-generic #50~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 4 17:25:51 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux As I analyze, I use netcat plus wireshark to validate, with wireshark running on both the client machine and on a second machine plugged into the local Ethernet switch's SPAN port This invocation produces outbound TCP SYNs in both traces: ubuntu# nc -4 -p 1024 10.1.1.1 2049 Whereas this invocation produces TCP SYNs only in the on-board pcap -- the pcap taken from the switch's SPAN port contains nothing (well, it contains the ARP exchange with10.1.1.1, but no TCP frames). ubuntu# nc -4 -p 1023 10.1.1.1 2049 I have some evidence to suggest that it appeared in 3.8.0-33 or higher --sk Stuart Kendrick -- 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