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

Brandon Allbery allbery.b@gmail.com
Tue, 8 May 2012 17:37:02 -0400


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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> indeed, i forgot (to mention) that. but it happens.


Mostly I mentioned because (and I forgot to note this) NAT ping won't help
in that case; if anything, it might make triggering it that much more
likely to happen sooner rather than later.

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b@gmail.com
wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Derrick Brashear <span dir=
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mail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;p=
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<div class=3D"im">On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Brandon Allbery &lt;<a hr=
ef=3D"mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Derrick Brashear &lt;<a href=3D"mailto=
:shadow@gmail.com">shadow@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; the surprising thing is NAT ping should keep the port open unless<=
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&gt;&gt; 2) there&#39;s a hard timeout on NAT at least for UDP where regard=
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&gt;&gt; use, you lose your timeout.<br>&gt;<br>
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ing won&#39;t help in that case; if anything, it might make triggering it t=
hat much more likely to happen sooner rather than later.</div>
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