Hi-- On Feb 19, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: > Well, that was what I was proposing. I could be wrong, but as far as I > know, this is allowed by Sun RPC. The port#s are assigned dynamically and > registered with rpcbind. (I don't necessarily agree with the design, but > this was/is how Sun RPC does it. The philosophy was/is that apps. don't know > what port# is being used and shouldn't care. If sysadmins want to use a > fixed port#, they can use command line options to override the default > dynamic assignment. And, yes, this is one reason that Sun RPC is a pita > w.r.t. firewalls. 1980s design...)
Trying to force SunRPC and old NFS through fixed ports in order to pass through a firewall sounds like a lot more work, and weakens the security of a firewall to such a significant extent that I have to wonder if it is the right problem to solve. :-) Why not setup a VPN via OpenVPN/IPSec/ssh+ppp/etc...? Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
