An interesting NFS mounting problem

[Matthew Snyder]

Zhou, Jingchen wrote:
> I am having a problem to mount a NFS volume /home (exported by a RHEL4 server nfs0) on a NFS client which is also RHEL4.
> 
> The server (nfs0) is configured as such
> $ cat /etc/exports
> /home nfsclient1(rw)
> 
> and the client (nfsclient1) as such:
> #cat /etc/fstab
> nfs0:/home            /home           nfs     defaults        0 0 
> 
> When the client boots up, I get the following error message:
> 
> "Mounting NFS filesystems: mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs0' failed: System Error: No route to host."
> 
> However, I have no problem to ping the server (nfs0) from nfsclient1 and I also can mount /home manually via e.g. "mount /home" from command line.
> 
> Am I missing any?
> 
> Thanks,
> JC
> 
> 
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Is it trying to mount /home before networking is started during boot?