sunrpc is port 111 as defined in /etc/services. I'll try to explicitly set port 111. No same result, same type of logs being show. Thanks for the suggestion though. On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 18:12, Cedric Blancher wrote: > Le dim 25/04/2004 à 00:00, Krunk a écrit : > > I've bound my NFS ports (moountd, statd, lockd, quotad) and freed up the > > ports they are bound to, but the client still hangs when I try to mount > > the remote share. > [...] > > command that opens ports: > > NFS="2049 32764 32765 32766 32767 32768 32772 sunrpc" > [...] > > Apr 24 16:53:35 tuxmac DROPl:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=<mac here> > > SRC=192.168.xxx.xxx DST=192.168.xxx.xxx LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 > > TTL=64 ID=41035 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=896 DPT=111 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN > > URGP=0 > > As far as I can see, your client is trying to connect to portmapper in > order to get NFS service port back. But there's nothing in your script > excerpt that opens TCP/111. > > PS : maybe you should consider use the RPC helper available in > patch'o'matic extra section.