[OpenAFS] Multihomed fileserver and windows client

[Mitch Collinsworth]

Hi Jeff,

I'm fairly sure I remember the unix client officially supporting this
sometime before the spinning off of OpenAFS.  Is there any place today
where one can consult release notes for old IBM/Transarc releases to
verify?

I'm not currently in a position to test this but am interested in the
results since we are considering adding a multi-homed server at some
point.  I wonder if anyone else is in a position to perform a test to
verify Fabio's results?

-Mitch


On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> I have no idea if the Windows client contains multi-homed support or not.  If 
> there was a patch applied to the Unix client in order to
> support multi-homed servers, please point me at it so that I can
> apply a similar patch to the Windows client.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>
> Fabio Bucciarelli wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I've tested AFS within a test environment consisting of 3 linux multihomed 
>> AFS servers (vlserver and fileserver) both connected to two LANs. I didn't 
>> define any NetInfo or NetRestrict file.
>> 
>> In addition, I have both windows and linux clients each connected to one 
>> LAN or another.
>> Linux clients work in both networks, while windows clients work only in
>> one of them (the one corresponding to eth0 interface for servers).
>> 
>> Windows client can ask the vldbserver, but when I try to access to the
>> afs filesystem, it use the wrong IP address of fileserver (that of the
>> first network).
>> 
>> I suppose that Windows client has not the multihomed support. Is that 
>> right?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Take care,
>>  Fabio