[OpenAFS-devel] 1.3.X: Problem with many connections exhausting resources?

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jim Rees wrote:

>  * Having the NAT machine being a NAT machine ONLY, WITHOUT an AFS
>     client/server/etc. If you as much as breath "afs" on the NAT box it
>     breaks.
>
> I run an OpenAFS client on my OpenBSD nat box with no problems.  I did not
> have to do anything special to make this work.

For us, running an AFS client on our Linux NAT box works, but it means 
that AFS on the machines behind the NAT stops working.

>  * Rebooting the NAT box usually means restarting AFS on all clients as
>     the udp forwarding is lost.
>
> The clients will eventually recover without restarting.  You can speed the
> recovery with "fs checks -all".

We've had incidents where fs checks -all didn't help (or seemed to 
help, but didn't), so I wouldn't bet money on it working everytime ;)

/Nikke
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