[OpenAFS-devel] another weird afs client issue w/ cannot talk to server

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at 05:09  PM, Jim Rees wrote:

>   Are the networks congested?  Is it possible that the server's
>   "WhoAreYou" is being blocked/dropped along the way?  I don't think
>   I've ever seen this with stable-IP machines (although I've definitely
>   seen it with machines that have been renumbered or mobile).  Albeit
>   I haven't seen it in a long while.
>
> I've seen this too, but have not been able to characterize it well 
> enough to
> file a bug report.  I can usually reproduce it in this way:
>
> 1. Put two different clients at the same IP address.
> 2. Run for "a while."
> 3. Turn one of them off.
> 4. Now the file server will refuse to talk to the other one.
>
> It's possible this is only a problem with older clients that don't have
> uuids, in which case I'm not going to worry about it.  But I'm not 
> sure yet.
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I'm absolutely shure there are no duplicate IP's and the server is 
talking to the right client.
It's also the client from CVS... :-)

Horst