[OpenAFS] multiple network interfaces in AFS

Marc Schmitt schmitt@inf.ethz.ch
Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:20:13 +0100


Dear Derrick,

What about the server side?
I'm thinking about a fileserver failover setup, where I have eth0 and 
eth0:0 on the active machine. Ideally, the clients should not see eth0 
but eth0:0 only.

Regards,
     Marc

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Reto Schneider wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>does anybody know, how i can prevent an network interface
>>beeing used by AFS ? I have a public and a private network
>>interface - only the public interface is reachable by the clients.
>>In DFS, there was the RPC_UNSUPPORTED_NETIFS environment variable.
>>Is there anything similar in AFS ?
> 
> 
> /usr/vice/etc/NetInfo  and/or /usr/vice/etc/NetRestrict can be used for
> this.
> 
> Quoting from documentation:
> If the NetInfo file exists when the Cache Manager initializes, the Cache
> Managers uses its contents as the basis for a list of the machine's
> interfaces. If the file does not exist, the Cache Manager instead uses the
> network interfaces configured with the operating system. If the
> NetRestrict file exists, the Cache Manager removes any addresses included
> in it from the list it is compiling. It records the completed list in
> kernel memory. 
> 
> 
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