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

[Jason Edgecombe]

Derrick Brashear wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
My idea of polling with rxdebug would probably just duplicate what afsd 
does already, so I guess not.

Jason