[OpenAFS-devel] nat mode

[Roland Kuhn]

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Hi Jim!

On 16 Feb 2006, at 13:22, Jim Rees wrote:

> That couldn't possibly work.  Where would you deliver callbacks?   
> What about
> authentication?
>
Please excuse my ignorance: I thought that having the RX connection  
ID would be enough to decide to which cluster node the callback from  
the server should go...

> If you have control over the nat, why not just fix the udp timeouts?

Well, Jeffrey raised this issue about callbacks being delivered  
always to port 7001, so traditional UDP nat will not work reliably.

Ciao,
                     Roland

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