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Commit c2e1b09f authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust
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SUNRPC: Support registering IPv6 interfaces with local rpcbind daemon



Introduce a new API to register RPC services on IPv6 interfaces to allow
the NFS server and lockd to advertise on IPv6 networks.

Unlike rpcb_register(), the new rpcb_v4_register() function uses rpcbind
protocol version 4 to contact the local rpcbind daemon.  The version 4
SET/UNSET procedures allow services to register address families besides
AF_INET, register at specific network interfaces, and register transport
protocols besides UDP and TCP.  All of this functionality is exposed via
the new rpcb_v4_register() kernel API.

A user-space rpcbind daemon implementation that supports version 4 of the
rpcbind protocol is required in order to make use of this new API.

Note that rpcbind version 3 is sufficient to support the new rpcbind
facilities listed above, but most extant implementations use version 4.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
parent babe80eb
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