[OpenAFS-devel] Stop me before I NAT again...

[Derek Atkins]

"Todd M. Lewis" <utoddl@email.unc.edu> writes:

> I was thinking some people might not care to have the code in their
> client daemons at all if they know they don't intend to run
> it. Run-time config would be necessary either way.  In particular, the
> user need to be able to specify:
> * 'on' or 'off'
> * the interval between refreshes (shorter than the UDP timeout),
> * the initial Time To Live (ttl) for the packets
> * ???
> 
> Q: Should these be controllable the same way 'fs checks -interval NN'
> works? (Just what 'fs' needs -- more subcommands.)

Yes.  Some mobile clients move from NAT to non-NAT and back (without
rebooting or restarting AFS) so it would be nice to be able to change
the behavior while AFS is running.

-derek
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