Is NFS client id trunking available in RHEL?
Issue
- Please add NFSv4.1 client id trunking into RHEL.
- Trying to mount two different NFSv4.1 shares with different destination IP addresses for the same NFS server, fails.
- Trying to mount two different NFSv4.0 shares with different destination IP addresses for the same NFS server, succeeds.
This knowledge base solution is about the client id trunking feature.
session trunking vs client id trunking
Session trunking, whereby one can have multiple TCP connections to the same NFS server with the same IP address is provided by nconnect
and discussed in:
- Is NFS session trunking available in RHEL?
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4090971
The ability to have distinct TCP connections to the same NFS server, but to different IP addresses of the NFS server is client id trunking as discussed in:
- Is NFS client id trunking available in RHEL?
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4091931
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- NFSv4.1
- NFSv4.2
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