[OpenAFS] best way to debug windows 1.7.11 cache/rx/NAT problems?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b@gmail.com
Tue, 8 May 2012 15:39:30 -0400


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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:

> the surprising thing is NAT ping should keep the port open unless
> 1) the timeout interval is aggressively short, like, 20 seconds.
> 2) there's a hard timeout on NAT at least for UDP where regardless of
> use, you lose your timeout.
>

3) your NAT device has a very small table for UDP mappings, which at least
some of the commercial boxes do; overflowing will cause mappings to be
lost, typically in LRU fashion.

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b@gmail.com
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