[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] PC-NFS Toolkit bug? Need help

stan@lbl-csam.arpa (See-Mong Tan) (06/17/88)

Greetings,
	I'm writing a NFS file server with the PC-NFS toolkit.  Each
time I bind port #2049 to a socket, the select() call refuses
to listen to any messages on that socket.  This doesn't happen with 
other port numbers.  Has anyone encountered this
problem?  I'd appreciate any insight.

See-Mong Tan
stan@lbl-csam.arpa

dannyb@kulcs.uucp (Danny Backx) (06/22/88)

2049 is the port used by NFS.
This means that on all machines running NFS servers, you can't get that port.
I am working with SunOS and BSD, in which you have to do the bind
system call to attach your socket to a port number.
If that port number is already in use, the bind fails, and errno=EADDRINUSE.