On Wed, 12 May 2004, Jeff Moyer wrote:

> Hello Ian, list,
> 
> I had a user report an issue which is summed up in the subject.  Basically,
> he disallowed UDP traffic to his NFS server.  Because the autofs code uses
> UDP in the rpc_ping function to determine if a server is alive, it would
> conclude that the server was not alive.  He was, of course, using NFSv4
> over TCP.

> So, thoughts?  Comments?

Oh and another thing.

The rpc ping should only occur if replicated server mount syntax is being 
used. If this is not the case it's also a bug.

Is he using the latest replicated server patch?

Ian

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