Re: NFS mount problem

Jorn/Calum,

Thank you both for taking the time to respond to my query. I hope the
following responds to questions and suggestions presented by you both:

We have a test network running a wireless lan. An access point provides
the bridge to the internet via the campus network.

The iPAQ is able to get on to the internet. Ssh to and from the iPAQ works
just fine. I can ping remote computers over the internet. DNS resolution
works fine. I can ping the NFS server successfully(it's on another
net). For some reason only the NFS requests (we tried TCP & UDP) don't
seem to get through. I seems they are timing out waiting for a response
(based on the error that I get)...I can successfully mount the NFS export
from other computers across our network. The test sub-net in question
only has a couple of iPAQs running on it and neither can do an NFS mount
successfully.

It could be an ACL problem at the access point/router
is what we're guessing...for the time being I cannot go to the access
point/router physically and verify the ACL...Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Following is the output requested by Jorn:

# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:0B:B1:BD
          inet addr:139.252.209.18 Bcast:139.252.255.255
Mask:255.255.255.224
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:4584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:430400 (420.3 Kb) TX bytes:5985 (5.8 Kb)
          Interrupt:42

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
139.252.209.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 0 0
eth0
0.0.0.0 139.252.209.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0

Thanks in advance,
mateen...

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Calum Mackay wrote:

> Just to check the obvious:
>
> o What does "netstat -r" have to say? Do you have a default route, a
> static route to that server's net, or is the server on the net you're
> iPAQ is connected to? If the latter, check the subnet mask is correct,
> with ifconfig.
>
> o If the server is multi-homed, you may need routes to *all* of its
> interfaces, not just the one you think you're using.
>
> o Can you ping the server? Given the error I doubt it; you need to get
> ping working before you can think about NFS.
>
> cheers,
> Calum.

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jrn Nettingsmeier wrote:

>
> which kind of networking are you using ?
> please post the output of "ifconfig -a" and "route -n".
>
> --
> Jorn Nettingsmeier

> Mateen Khan wrote:
>
>> I'm having problems trying to mount NFS on my iPAQ.
>> I'm running Familiar v0.4 on an H3650
>>
>> A command of the following type
>> "mount -o nolock server:/mount /mnt/nfs"
>> gives the following error
>> "mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = No route to host"
Received on Mon Jul 16 16:00:48 2001