Re: nfs + ipv6 hanging???

Samuel Maftoul (maftoul@esrf.fr)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:22:28 +0100


On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:29:17AM +0000, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Kernel 2.4.17, gcc-2.95.4, mount 2.11n
>
> nfs clients seem to hang when ipv6 is on the machine. No idea why...
> the mount process gets stuck in 'D' state and the only way out is to
> reboot.
>
> If I remove ipv6 from the box & perform exactly the same operations then
> it works perfectly. The mount is definately using the ipv4 address (I
> don't think the portmapper/nfsd is ipv6 enabled anyway).
Not really sure about this:
I'm at work using SuSE 7.2 wich is shipped with a native IpV6 support
and our nfs client / server works almost perfectly ( with low testing on
gigabit ethernet machines I've got 26 MB/sec)
Sam
>
> Tony
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