Max NFS mounts for a FreeBSD client?

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Eric L. Anderson wrote:

> I can not change lowfirst to any higher amount. I did change lowlast from 
> 600 to 1 and now I can mount more than 1000 NFS mounts. This is great but 
> what kind of side effects am I introducing by making this change?

The risk, btw, is that those reserved ports may no longer be available for 
other use, as they may collide with other services you might want to have, 
especially if those services want to bind INADDR_ANY.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge