Re: Force NFS mount to a specific TCP/IP interface

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe

Look up "Schowler route" and see if that can help you. It's and 
i-specific thing, however. They do let you specify an interface to talk 
to a specific IP address.

A presentation on Virtual IP -
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/download/attachments/16253354/VirtualIP.pdf?version=1

General KB on them -
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1eb95209430bbcb7486256d170047484a

Looks as if there is a redbook, too, SG24-6718, that might help - 
iSeries IP networks: Dynamic!

HTH
Vern

On 5/9/2011 11:01 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> We've got multiple IP addresses configured on our IBM i.  With SMTP,
> it's relatively easy to configure which address to bind to.  iSeries
> Navigator lets you select which IP addresses to bind to right in the
> SMTP server configuration page.  Is there something similar to force an
> NFS mount to a specific interface?  This is when we're trying to use the
> MOUNT command to access an external device's file system as an IBM i
> folder, so I don't think the NFS server configuration is going to help
> (and there's nothing there about binding anyway).
>
> MOUNT seems to want to use the numerically lowest IP interface (SMTP did
> the same thing until we reconfigured it).  We can probably configure the
> external device to accept requests from this address, but it would be
> good to know if there's a better control mechanism.
>
> Joe