NFS, Portmap, Port Numbers, Firewalls

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Jason Joines wrote:
%     I'm trying to get NFS to work through my firewall without much 
% luck.  Portmap and NFS stay on dedicated ports but all those RPC 
% processes (statd, mountd, etc.) keep changing port numbers.  Is there 
% any way to make these stick to a specific port?

I don't recall if you ever got an answer to this. For statd, specify
"-o port_num" for outgoing ports and "-p port_num" for incoming ports.
For mountd, specify "-p port_num".

Kurt
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