[OpenAFS-devel] any way to get the fileserver to give up on a client after a whil e?

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Cool. A reason to update my fileservers. 

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chaskiel M Grundman [mailto:cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:31 PM
> To: 'openafs-devel@openafs.org'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] any way to get the fileserver to 
> give up on aclient after a whil e?
> 
> 
> Actually, yes. Delta 
> rx-protect-servers-from-half-reachable-clients-20020119 does 
> precisely 
> this, in the rx layer. Personally, I would have favored doing 
> it in the 
> fileserver instead, since it's the only thing that makes 
> rpc's in response 
> to rpc's, but I didn't write the code.
> 
> 
> --On Tuesday, January 22, 2002 15:05:18 -0600 "Neulinger, Nathan" 
> <nneul@umr.edu> wrote:
> 
> > We have several users that insist on using personal 
> firewalls, and never
> > get them right. This results in messages like the following 
> all the time
> > in our logs.
> >
> > Jan 22 14:58:44 afs2 fileserver[25613]: 
> BreakDelayedCallbacks FAILED for
> > host XXXX9783 which IS UP.  Possible network or routing failure.
> >
> > Would there be any reasonable way to get the file server to 
> give up on
> > this client after some time period?
> >
> > -- Nathan
> >
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> > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> > University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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