[OpenAFS] Re: 1.6 clients: rx version pings

[Andrew Deason]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 17:52:14 +0100
Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de> wrote:

> we had seen this during EAKC already: 1.6 clients are supposed to ping
> file servers once a second, yet they do so at much higher rates. As
> the number of 1.6 clients is increasing here, this has become a real
> problem.

If you're talking about the rx nat keepalive ping (they appear as "rx
version reply" packets on the wire), it's only supposed to be once every
20 seconds. I believe there were issues before where that would be done
for _every_ connection to the fileserver, but I thought it was fixed...
somewhere (possibly post-1.6.0?). I assume Derrick can answer that
faster than I can find it.

> Is there any way to prevent the client from doing this? Any way to at
> least make it forget an old fileserver? Or at least reset the rate to
> the 1 Hz it should be? Can this be disabled altogether? Supposed I
> find the place in the code where these pings happen and just remove
> them, what would be the consequences?

If they are the nat keepalive pings, they're just for keeping port
mappings open for nats and stateful firewalls and such. There should be
a way to turn them off, but I don't believe there is right now.

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Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net