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

[Ken Hornstein]

>> I guess my point that given the architecture dependencies already in AFS,
>> we could argue whether or not a "generic" fileserver exists today.  I
>
>pthreads: not ours
>rx userlevel: not overly system-specific
>namei: generic
>
>pretty bland stuff

Even given that, there are _tons_ of architecture-dependent #ifdefs sprinkled
throughout the code.  I still think that calling the fileserver "generic"
is a misnomer.

>> don't see a huge problem with changing the way we do FD management
>> to a more efficient per-platform system.  And if it's all hidden inside
>> LWP (since that's what seems to handle FDs today; I don't see any calls to
>> select() or poll() in the fileserver), does it really matter?
>
>it's udp. there's a socket.

Huh?  We were talking about the hypothetical TCP-based fileserver.

--Ken