[OpenAFS-devel] N800, Mobile AFS, and changing IP addresses

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Jason Edgecombe
<jason@rampaginggeek.com> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>
> > --On Monday, April 28, 2008 06:40:31 PM -0400 Derrick Brashear
> <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Tune the AFS timeouts so that the user get's failure messages more
> > > > > > quickly?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >  If by "tune the AFS timeouts" you mean "make them smaller", don't do
> > > >  that.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The right thing to do is to use the network stack to notice, if at all
> > > possible, that you have no network.
> > >
> >
> > Exactly so.
> >
>
>  Ok, so what is the consensus on what to do for the N800?
>
>  Right now, I have the following:
>
>  1.  notify afsd of new interfaces like Darwin
>  2.  cause all of the servers to be re-checked
>
>  Should anything be done when a network interface is dropped? Should I just
> let afsd handle that?

Linux *should* dtrt to the network stack.

>  Should I worry about the captive portal case where the net is blocked, then
> unblocked a few minutes later? I was thinking of monitoring that somehow and
> telling afsd to recheck things.

How?