November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 12m
English
book
Securing NFS in AIX An Introduction to NFS v4 in AIX 5L Version 5.3
by Chris Almond, Lutz Denefleh, Sridhar Murthy, Aniket Patel, John Trindle
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12 Securing NFS in AIX
2.1 How NFS works
A server has files on a local disk, irrespective of file system type, that are
accessed through NFS on a client machine. NFS is an application layer protocol
that uses other underlying protocols defined in the TCP/IP model. NFS is built on
top of the TCP/IP protocol stack over the
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol.
To handle this operation, NFS consists of:
Networking protocols
Client and server daemons
Figure 2-1 How NFS works
2.2 Protocols used by NFS
The NFS-specific protocols are Sun RPC and External Data Representation
(XDR)
protocol.
The
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model is traditio ...
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