How to force mountd to use a static port on Red Hat

• April 3rd, 2009
• Posted in Linux . Tech

So I’ve been working with a very strict firewall on an AIX host which is mouting an NFS share on Red Hat 5.3 hosts and since NFSD on Red Hat utilises the RPC protocol (port 111) and NFS (port 2049) which are static, it unfortunately also uses rpc.mountd (aka mountd) which (by default) doesn’t run [ READ MORE ]