[OpenAFS] IP Masquerading NAT Linux kernel modification

Brandon S. Allbery allbery@ece.cmu.edu
08 Feb 2002 11:28:57 -0500


On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 11:07, Ralph B. Robinson (Barry) wrote:
> What is a fairly large timeout in seconds? Is there some known internal
> limit in AFS that determines this, or is it just an empirical finding that
> timeouts of some particular size just work?

We ended up using half a day (43200sec) but we didn't have a lot of time
to tune things; it just worked out to be the first acceptable balance
between having things work and overflowing the masq port range that we
found.

> What is the exact kernel hack? I found some promising definitions in the

Can't help; we were using 2.0.36 kernels, and the cluster has since been
decommissioned as the grad students it was built for have moved on.

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