[OpenAFS-devel] Rx over TCP to solve some NAT & Firewall issues?

chas williams chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:16:39 -0500


>Possible problems with this approach are:
>- TCP may cause worse performance than UDP.
>- Can multiple users behind the same NAT be handled?
>- For large servers, the number of TCP connections may become too great

you might want to take a look at the 'rx performance' threads 
back in june 2003.  in particular, this comment about tcp
makes me skeptical about tcp:

https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2003-June/004424.html):