On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Jefferson Ogata wrote:

> It would be nice if they would at least randomize the source ports on new
> connections.

There evidently is another RFE to do something like that, or at least try
another port if the original connection times out.

> Maybe you could fire up a program before 73nfs.client that would bind a
> random number of TCP ports from 1023 down, forcing the NFS client to
> come up on a new port.

It's Solaris 10 with SMF, there is no 73nfs.client.

> Though I don't consider return-rst to be a kluge, really. What's klugey
> about that?

I currently have no specific rules blocking inbound packets from NFS
servers, I would need to either add one, or use return-rst on my general
block inbound rule. Both feel somewhat kludgy.


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