H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>Dylan wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tuesday 13 January 2004 20:03 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
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>>>However, this doesn't address the issue of the client being *the same
>>>system*, in which case you can't just move the IP address away from
>>>it, since local == remote; you can no longer send packets to the
>>>server and get a response back.  You can do it if you can get the
>>>client and the server sides to bind to *different* IP addresses, in
>>>which case the current autofs behaviour will correctly see them as
>>>being separate and mount NFS.
>>>      
>>>
>>Would binding an alias address to the interface be sufficient?
>>
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>>
>
>No, you have to force the local port to not be bound to the same
>address.  I think this can be done with iptables rules, but I'm not
>sure... I'm not a networking wizard.
>
>  
>
I know you can do this using chbind from the vserver toolset and kernel 
patch.

http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/s_release/v1.23/

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