setting up nfs

[mkomarinski at valinux.com (Mark Komarinski)]

Time to put the crack pipe down I guess.  I seem to remember some
combination of "NAT, UDP, and Server" that didn't work....*sigh*

-Mark

Derek Atkins wrote:

> Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at valinux.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Cable modem routers (or any NAT filter) can not forward UDP packets.
>>There are two solutions:
>>
> 
> Um, you are HORRIBLY confused. Of course you can forward UDP through a
> NAT.  Otherwise not even DNS would work!  There are two main issues
> with UDP through NAT:
> 
> 	1) protocols that include source/dest port numbers _within_
>            the protocol (ala Kerberos/Zephyr/etc.) will fail.
> 
> 	2) protocols that require server callbacks (ala AFS) require
>            you to increase the NAT timeout.
> 
> But besides that, there is no reason UDP cannot flow through NAT (I do
> it almost every day!)
> 
> 
>><security>
>>you really don't want to be running NFS over the Internet.  It's bad.
>>It's insecure, anyone can read it, blah blah.
>></security>
>>
> 
> This I agree with whole-heartedly.  I'd really suggest you look into
> more secure network file systems.  Take a look at www.openafs.org!
> 
> 
>>-Mark
>>
> 
> -derek
> 
> 


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