I have systems running Gentoo Linux mounting shares hosted on a Gentoo Linux server. All are running 3.12.8 kernels and using NFS 4. I've followed all instructions I can find for fixing everything to a static port, but I still see one instance ofrandom port behavior. A kernel process (does not display a PID in netstat) on the guests is opening listening sockets on random high-numbered ports. The server is attempting to contact those guests via random low-numbered ports, which my firewall is blocking. Despite these packets being blocked, I haven't noticed any adverse effects - everything appears to work normally except for my system logs on the server being spammed with blocked outgoing connection attempts. What is this random port the client is trying to accept connections on, and how do I make it listen on a fixed port instead of a random one so that I can write useful firewall rules? -- 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
