Network Block Device on Fedora FC1

Hello here,

I'm trying to make this combination working for two days now. I must
admit that not a big success. So my story:

Two computers, gigabit interconnect, crossed UTP cat 5. Plain Fedora
installation, kernel 2.4.22-1.2115, NBD 2.6 from sourceforge.org. On
the second computer (called RAC2):

1. login as root (not really needed but who cares)
2. ./configure - long list, no errors, last line config.h is unchanged
3. make all - nothing to be done
4. make install - copy binaries into the /usr/local/bin
5. dd if=/dev/zero of=/nbd/testfile bs=1024 count=10000 <- 10MB file
created
6. /usr/local/bin/nbd-server 7777 ./testfile <- from ps process is
running

so far so good, moving to the RAC1 (second PC, exactly the same
configuration)

1 - 4. the same procedure, the same outcome
5. modprobe nbd <- works
6. /usr/local/bin/nbd-client rac2 7777 /dev/nb1
Negotiation: ..size = 0KB <- looks strange
bs=1024, sz=0
7. mke2fs /dev/nb1 <- Device size reported to be zero... blah blah
blah. Not really suprising if you saw the outcome of the step six (on
the client).

There is also other version. In step six the outcome is sometimes
"Connection refused" and dying server process.

Can somebody help me with this? Im an oracle expert not the Linux one
and also the author of this software has a funny approach to the
documentation writing. There is only a single README file and inside
is the only line with "Initial README", so RTFM response will not be
very helpful. :-)

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Dusan Bolek

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