[OpenAFS] connection timeout errors

[Derek Atkins]

Hmm, then I dont know what to suggest to you...  AFS behind a NAT is
just... weird.  It usually works, but it can get into strange states
sometimes.  There were a few bugs in the fileserver where it would
try to callback to the wrong address and fail to get a WhoAreYou
response.

Have you tried running a network sniffer on both sides of the NAT
box to see what's going on with the failed connections?

-derek

Elliot Peele <ebpeele2@pams.ncsu.edu> writes:

> These are desktop that are 100% of the time behind the NAT.
> 
> Elliot
> 
> On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:30, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Are these users on laptops or are they _ALWAYS_, 100% behind the NAT?
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > Elliot Peele <ebpeele2@pams.ncsu.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I thought I'd try this again worded a bit different and with a different
> > > subject. I have several users that keep getting connection timeout
> > > errors when trying to access there volumes from behind a firewall. I
> > > believe this may be a problem with the udp timeouts. They are OpenAFS
> > > clients connecting to Transarc AFS server through an iptables NATing
> > > firewall running on Red Hat Linux 7.3 currently with kernel
> > > 2.4.18-24.7.x.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Elliot

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