[OpenAFS] guide to debugging nat issues?

[hays@ibiblio.org]

--On Friday, June 15, 2007 12:01 PM -0400 openafs-info-request@openafs.org 
wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:06:30 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
> To: Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu>
> Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] guide to debugging nat issues?
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Adam Megacz wrote:
>
>>
>> I've encountered a NAT that seems to be messing with OpenAFS (1.4.4
>> Mac client and 1.4.4 Linux server) -- periodically and randomly things
>> just stop working and the connection times out; a few minutes later
>> they magically start working again.
>>
>> Are there any guides out there on how to debug such a situation?
>
> Fix the nat port timeout, or, well, I suppose I could probably give you a
> patch to up the ping frequency
>
> Alternately, I expect to finish a behavior improvement for 1.4.5


Or you could try running natkeep, it works ok (or did a year ago):
<http://www.ibiblio.org/macsupport/afs/natkeep.html>


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bil hays
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