Firewalls: Re: NFS ports

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Subject:	Re: NFS ports
From:	Alexander Kolbasov <akolb @ ipm . msk . su>
Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 1995 23:41:02 +0300
To:	Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to:	<9510191747 . AB07455 @ aero117>
References:	<9510191747 . AB07455 @ aero117>
Reply-to:	akolb @ stins . msk . su

Dave Salvador writes:

 > With regards to Mike's question about which UDP ports are required
 > for NFS, my information (TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1, Stevens) says NFS
 > goes over 2049/UDP and that you also need a mount connection which
 > goes over some non-reserved TCP or UDP port as reported by the
 > portmapper on the serving host.  Another option for those NFS
 > implementations that support it would be to run NFS over TCP. 

And what ports are used by TCP/IP based NFS? I tried to block 2049/TCP and
discovered that it's somehow used by Netscape!

-- 
		- Sasha -

akolb @
 stins .
 msk .
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Re: NFS ports
From: "Dave Salvador" <SALVADOR @ lrlmccer . lsis . loral . com>

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