NFS over IPV6 on RHEL5 clients
Hi everybody,
Does NFS is supported over ipv6 on RHEL5 clients? if yes, is there any settings needs to be done for this.
Thanks,
Inbaraj
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Red Hat
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Hi Inbaraj,
Sorry you haven't received an answer to this yet. I'll reach out to someone here that should be able to help out.
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In RHEL5, the portmap service is used, which does not have support for IPv6.
In RHEL6, the rpcbind service is used, which does have support for IPv6.
IPv6 support for NFS was added to upstream Fedora in 2010, before the release of RHEL6, but several years after the release of RHEL5.
If you wish to use NFS over IPv6, please use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
- RHEL6 Storage Admin Guide - Chapter 9. Network File System (NFS) - 9.1.1. Required Services
- Is NFS client over IPv6 supported in RHEL?
- Is NFS server over IPv6 supported in RHEL6?
I have improved the above knowledgebase articles to better clarify support status and the reasons why.
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