ITEM: E6967L

multiple slip, lan interfaces, causing portmap, NFS problems

Question:

On one of my RISC System/6000s that I am trying to set up, I cannot get
the NFS daemons running at all.  biod and nfsd are up but mountd,
statd, and lockd will not start.  If I use startsrc -g nfs it returns
PID numbers for them but the don't show up as operative with lssrc.
The only error appears to be in the errpt and says that the detecting
module is srchevn.c @line:261.  I have tried stopping and restarting
the portmap daemon but this did not help.  Could  you help me with
this configuration?
Response:

Customer is still having
trouble with the machine where 3 of the 5 nfs daemons won't stay
running. Browsing thru /etc/services, looking for mountd and statd,
then did an rpcinfo -p \ This command returned cannot contact
portmapper error.  Asked him to ifconfig lo0, and loopback interface
is down.  Had him ifconfig lo0 up, stopsrc -g nfs, startsrc -g nfs, 
and now all the nfs daemons stay up.

Tried the rpcinfo -p hostname again, but still cannot contact
portmapper.  Hmmm, had him stopsrc -g nfs, sh /etc/tcp.clean.  Was
going to have him restart TCP/IP with smitty tcpip-min config &
startup, decided instead to ask him what addresses he has on the three
slip interfaces and the tr0 interface.  Turns out that he has the same
address on all 4 interfaces.  This is likely the root of the problem.

Told him each slip connection needs to look like a different IP
network.  And the tr0 interface needs to be different network also.




Support Line: multiple slip, lan interfaces, causing portmap, NFS problems ITEM: E6967L

Dated: November 1993 Category: N/A

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