[OpenAFS] !@#$ integrated logon

[Rodney M Dyer]

Ahhh, this makes perfect sense...I get it now.  Since the AFS service 
relies on a SMB loopback mechanism for it's network connectivity, you don't 
need to have it rely on the primary network adapter!  Great!  This solves 
the great mystery we've had over the years where our PC's lose network 
connectivity for whatever reason, as when a cable becomes pulled, our PC's 
AFS service will crash...

Very much thanks for the info...I'll probably implement a private adapter soon!

Rodney

At 04:39 PM 9/26/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>The MS loopback adapter is needed if you will have a machine that may
>not be connected to the network when the AFS service starts up.  If your
>machines will always have network connectivity, you do not need the
>loopback adapter.
>
>If you search the archives, there are some people who swear that they
>get better reliability/performance with the loopback adapter.  I have
>never noticed any additional benefit if you have permanent network
>connectivity, but YMMV.
>
>Support to bind the AFS client to the loopback adapter was added in
>OpenAFS 1.2.8, I believe.  (It was not in the IBM/Transarc version)
>
>-Rob Murawski
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rodney M Dyer [mailto:rmdyer@uncc.edu]
>Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 4:33 PM
>To: openafs-info@openafs.org
>Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] !@#$ integrated logon
>
>
>At 11:09 AM 9/26/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >we tried these option and STILL get an afs startup failure message.
> >This is with afs using the ms loopback adapter.
>
>What's all this talk about the "loop-back connector"?  Why does anyone
>need
>this?  We've been using AFS for the last 7 years and never needed it.
>
>Just curious about what your purposes are, since you obviously don't
>need
>it for AFS.
>
>Rodney
>
>
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